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David T. Johnson, "Japan’s Secretive Death Penalty Policy: Contours, Origins, Justifications, and Meanings" Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, vol. 7(2006) pp. 62-124 Archived 27 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine; Death Penalty Database - Japan Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Academic research database on the laws ...
Japan: 26 July 2022 [123] Tomohiro Katō: murder: hanging: D Jordan: 4 March 2017 [124] 15 unnamed men murder and terrorism: hanging: B Kazakhstan: 2003: D Kuwait: 19 January 2025 [125] 4 unnamed men and one unnamed woman murder: hanging: A Kyrgyzstan: none since independence on 25 December 1991: C Laos: 1989 [126] C Lebanon: 17 January 2004 ...
Executions in Japan are carried out by hanging, and the country has seven execution chambers, all located in major cities. After a four-year moratorium, executions resumed in 1993 and up to 15 have taken place almost each year since then.
The death penalty is permissible when aggravating circumstances are decided to be proven by a nine-person panel of six jurors and three professional judges. [1] The list of death penalty-permissible aggravating circumstances are if the murder was committed: [2] [3] [4] Along with one or more other murders [2] [3] With torture of the victim [2] [3]
Last year, only eight states in the country imposed 21 death sentences, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The high-water mark was in 1996, when 315 people were sentenced to death.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
Stabbed to death a married couple in Aizuwakamatsu during a botched robbery. 11 years, 327 days Suguru Takahashi Gang leader who orchestrated the robbery and subsequent murders of two money lenders in 2001 and 2002. 20 years, 316 days Sunao Takami Set fire to the "Cross Niconico" pachinko parlor, killing five people. 13 years, 310 days
The surprise death of Akira Toriyama, the beloved artist behind the Dragon Ball manga and the classic Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger video games, may be 2024’s first death to be felt around the ...