Takayuki Fukuda
Takayuki Ōtsuki was the perpetrator of the Hikari Parent-child Murder Incident in Hikari, Yamaguchi, Japan, on 14 April 1999. On that day, when he was 18 years and 1 month old, he killed a woman and then performed necrophilia on the body, and also killed her daughter Yūka Motomura, and stole their wallet. He was charged with rape, murder and robbery, and was handed the death sentence although he was not of the age of maturity at that time. The appeal was rejected.
During the trial, the brutality of the details of the incident and the demands by the defense lawyers that teenagers ought not receive the death sentence were widely reported in mass media, sparking a debate within Japan.
