Kyodo News/Rick Halperin

JAPAN:Child killer loses death penalty appeal

The Fukuoka High Court on Wednesday upheld a death penalty given to a 63-year-old man for abducting and murdering 2 elementary school girls in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1992.

Presiding Judge Junichi Koide rejected Michitoshi Kuma's appeal of a 1999 Fukuoka District Court ruling, finding him guilty of abducting the 7-year-old girls while they were on their way to school, strangling them and dumping their bodies in a mountainous area.