People in wheelchairs attend a lottery for admission tickets to the court hearing of Satoshi Uematsu, accused in the 2016 murder of 19 disabled people at a Japanese care home, outside the Yokohama District Court in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture on Jan 8, 2020. - AFP
TOKYO (AFP): Japanese prosecutors on Monday (Feb 17) called for a 30-year-old man to be executed for allegedly murdering 19 disabled care home residents in one of the country's worst mass killings.
Satoshi Uematsu, a former care home employee, did not dispute his involvement in the 2016 stabbing rampage during his first court appearance last month in Yokohama.
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