Japan court upholds 'black widow' death sentence

Kanae Kijima, now 42, has married twice since she was detained in 2009.-AFP

Tokyo (AFP) - A Japanese "black widow" convicted of murdering three boyfriends she had met online and dated for their money faces execution after Japan's Supreme Court on Friday dismissed her final appeal.

Kanae Kijima, 42, who has married twice since she was detained in 2009, killed three men in the space of eight months through carbon monoxide poisoning, by burning charcoal briquettes after giving them sleeping tablets.