24 years in prison for murder: Is it enough?
In November 2007, a man was shot to death in his room at a hospital in Kyushu because the gangster who stormed into the hospital mistook him for somebody else. The gangster has been tried and sentenced to 24 years in prison for the crime, but prosecutors are not satisfied:
Prosecutors have appealed a 24-year prison term handed down to a yakuza for fatally shooting a hospital inpatient he mistook for a rival gangster, saying the sentence is too light.
The Saga District Public Prosecutors Office has demanded that the defendant spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Should the gangster have been given a tougher sentence?
