当時１９歳被告の死刑確定　特定少年、控訴取り下げ―甲府殺人放火

　甲府市で２０２１年１０月、夫婦が殺害され自宅が放火された事件で、甲府地裁で死刑判決を受けた無職遠藤裕喜被告（２１）が２日までに、東京高裁への控訴を取り下げた。死刑判決が確定した。同地裁への取材で分かった。
　遠藤被告は当時１９歳。改正少年法に基づき検察が「特定少年」として起訴後に実名を公表した全国初のケースで、特定少年に死刑が言い渡されたのも初めてだった。
　甲府地裁は先月１８日、遠藤被告の刑事責任能力を認めた上で、「更生の可能性は低いと言わざるを得ない」などとして、求刑通り死刑を言い渡した。被告は公判で「控訴はしません」と述べていたが、弁護人が今月１日、判決を不服として控訴していた。
　判決などによると、遠藤被告は２１年１０月１２日未明、甲府市の民家に侵入し、住人の男性会社員＝当時（５５）＝と妻＝同（５０）＝を刺殺。１０代だった次女も襲撃し、室内に放火して全焼させた。（2024/02/02-15:42）

The death sentence for a 21-year-old man in the October 2021 murder and arson case in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, has become final after he dropped an appeal against the sentence by Friday, informed sources said.
   The man, Yuki Endo, was a so-called specified juvenile aged 19 at the time of the incident. He was the first whose real name was released after public prosecutors indicted him as a specified juvenile under the country's revised juvenile law, and also the first specified juvenile to be sentenced to death.
   The death sentence was handed down by Kofu District Court on Jan. 18. Although Endo had indicated during his trial that he would not appeal a court decision, his defense lawyer filed an appeal with Tokyo High Court on Thursday.
   According to the ruling and other sources, Endo stabbed to death a corporate employee, then 55, and his wife, then 50, at their home in Kofu in the early hours of Oct. 12, 2021. He also assaulted their second daughter and set fire to burn down the house.
   In handing down the death sentence, the district court acknowledged his ability to take criminal responsibility, and noted that it could not help but say that he had little chance of rehabilitation.