Doctor in Japan gets 18 years over consensual killing of ALS patient
TOKYO, March 5 (Xinhua) -- A doctor in Japan was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 years in prison for the consensual killing of a woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2019 in Kyoto, western Japan.
Hiroshi Kawakami, presiding judge at Kyoto District Court, rejected 45-year-old Yoshikazu Okubo's plea of not guilty. Prosecutors had sought a prison term of 23 years.
Okubo has been charged with conspiring wit