Shinzo Abe assassination: Japanese court sentences gunman to life in prison

Tetsuya Yamagami was sentenced to life in prison for assassinating former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022. Yamagami admitted to killing Abe with a homemade gun, citing resentment toward the Unification Church as his motive. Prosecutors sought a life sentence, not the death penalty, since only one person was killed.