150,000
sign petition seeking death for 3 killers acquainted via
Internet
Wednesday,
October 24, 2007 at 06:50 EDT
NAGOYA
— The mother of a woman killed in August submitted to the
Nagoya District Public Prosecutors Office on Tuesday the
signatures of about 150,000 people calling for the death
penalty for three men charged with murder and robbery in
the case. The three have been indicted on charges of
killing Rie Isogai, 31, after they allegedly became
acquainted through a mobile phone Internet site seeking
"crime mates" in order to commit a crime to get money.
Fumiko Isogai, 56, told prosecutors, "Those men who did
these horrible things to my daughter are not human beings.
I hope the judges will understand my feeling," as she
brought in the signatures in four cardboard boxes to the
prosecutors office building. The defendants — Tsukasa
Kanda, Yoshitomo Hori and Kenji Kawagishi — allegedly
kidnapped Isogai, an officer worker, at random by car on a
street in Nagoya on Aug 24, robbed her of about 60,000 yen
and killed her. (Kyodo News)