Japanese court hands down life sentence to former PM Shinzo Abe’s assassin
Japan convicts Abe assassin; Yamagami sentenced to life in Nara court
The man who fatally shot former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, more than three years after the broad-daylight assassination stunned a nation with some of the world’s strictest gun laws and triggered a reckoning over politics and religion.
Judge Shinichi Tanaka delivered the sentence at a court in the city of Nara. Long lines formed early in the morning as people sought tickets to observe proceedings,…