An aerial view reveals firemens fighting fires at the website where a guy began a fire after spraying a liquid at a three-story studio of Kyoto Animation Co in Kyoto, western Japan, in this image taken by Kyodo, on July 18,2019 (Photo: Reuters) KYOTO – A Japanese district court sentenced a guy to death for setting a fire that eliminated 36 individuals at Kyoto Animation studios in 2019 in one of the nation’s mostsignificant mass-murder cases in current history, Kyodo News and regional media stated. The Kyoto District Court handed down the sentence Thursday on Shinji Aoba, 45, Kyodo and others reported from the court. Prosecutors had lookedfor the death charge for a criminaloffense they state he devoted with planning and severe malice. Defence legalrepresentatives were lookingfor an acquittal or a lower sentence, arguing Aoba was psychologically inexperienced at the time of the criminaloffense. Prosecutors argued that Aoba had misconceptions when he mistakenly implicated Kyoto Animation of plagiarising his work however stated he comprehended his actions at the time of the criminalactivity and had high neglect for human life, according to media reports. Defence attorneys argued Aoba cannot be held criminally accountable duetothefactthat he lived in deceptions and suffered extreme psychological healthproblem. While Presiding Judge Keisuke Masuda acknowledged that Aoba did suffer from a delusional condition, his conduct was little afflicted by it, and the accused was “not in a state of psychological incompetence or reduced capability” at the time. The court concluded th
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