Chisako Kakehi, a woman sentenced to death for the murders of three elderly men using cyanide compounds, has died, local media reported Thursday.
The 78-year-old death row inmate was convicted of murdering the men тАФ with the intent of inheriting their assets тАФ in Kyoto, Osaka, and Hyogo prefectures between 2012 and 2013.
Among the victims was her 75-year-old husband, Isao. The other two were men with whom she had entered common-law relationships.
In 2007, Kakehi also attempted to kill another male acquaintance to avoid repaying a debt.
She was held at the Osaka Detention Center as a death row inmate in the years before her death.
In 2022, Kakehi filed a request for a retrial at the Kyoto District Court in relation to the death of one of her common-law spouses, a 75-year-old man from the city of Itami, Hyogo Prefecture.
Her defense team argued that the man’s death was due to an illness and submitted a medical expert’s findings as new evidence.
However, the Kyoto court in March this year rejected the application, according to the NHK.
Information from Jiji added
