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Life imprisonment (無期懲役, muki chōeki) is one of the most severe punishments available in Japan, second only to the death penalty. The punishment is of indefinite length and may last for the remainder of the person's life. The punishment may be imposed for murder, terrorism, robbery, treason, kidnapping and other serious violent offenses.
Crime was committed while on parole from a life sentence for a previous murder. Originally sentenced to life, later commuted to death on appeal. Was tried twice before and received a life sentence both times prior to a third retrial, in which he was resentenced to death. Nobuo Oda Murder of two employees at an electronics retail store n Fukuoka.
Approximately 46% were repeat offenders. Japanese recidivism was attributed mainly to the discretionary powers of police, prosecutors, and courts and to the tendency to seek alternative sentences for first offenders. By 2001, the overall prison population rose to 61,242 [7] or 48 prisoners per 100,000.
Iwao Hakamada — who is believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate — has been acquitted 58 years after his arrest. Per local reports, Hakamada's death sentence was finalized in ...
Murder (殺人, satsujin) in Japanese law constitutes when someone intentionally kills another person without justification. The crime of murder is specified in Chapter XXVI of the Japanese criminal code. It is punishable by five years to life in prison, and with the death penalty if aggravating circumstances are proven. The only exception is ...
For prisoners of Japanese nationality sentenced to life imprisonment, see Category:Japanese prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Abdul Nasir was a convicted robber and kidnapper who was, in two separate High Court trials, sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment and 18 strokes of the cane for robbery with hurt resulting in a female Japanese tourist's death at Oriental Hotel in 1994 and a consecutive sentence of life imprisonment with 12 strokes of the cane for kidnapping two ...