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Shinji Aoba, who admitted to the 2019 Japanese animation studio attack, was denied a plea of ‘not guilty,’ with the Kyoto District Court determining he was ‘neither insane nor mentally incompetent at the time of the crime.’
A Kyoto District Court Judge said the man was neither mentally incompetent nor in a diminished mental state at the time of the attack.
A Japanese court sentenced Shinji Aoba to death on Thursday for the 2019 Kyoto Animation studio arson attack that killed 36 people, according to public broadcaster NHK.
The man who burned down Kyoto Animation in 2019, killing 36 people, has been sentenced to death by a Japanese court.