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Oda is Japan's longest-serving death row inmate. Kazuhiro Ogawa: Murdered 16 people in an arson attack on an adult video arcade. 15 years, 49 days Ogawa told police that he started the fire after deciding to kill himself, but he got scared, and ran away as smoke filled his room. Hideaki Ogoshi
Capital punishment is a legal penalty for murder in Japan, and is applied in cases of multiple murder or aggravated single murder. Executions in Japan are carried out by hanging, and the country has seven execution chambers, all located in major cities.
Since 2000, 98 inmates have been executed in Japan, [3] with the most recent being the execution of Tomohiro Katō, the perpetrator of the Akihabara massacre in 2008, who was executed on 26 July 2022. [4] There are currently 107 death row inmates awaiting execution. [5]
A lawsuit challenging Japan’s practice of giving death row inmates just a couple hours notice before execution was dismissed on Monday.
Masao Akahori was convicted in 1954 at the age of 24 of raping and murdering a schoolgirl. In 1989, he became the fourth death row inmate in Japan to be released. [8] [9] [6] 2024 Iwao Hakamada was acquitted in a retrial by the Shizuoka District Court. [10]
A man believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court at age 88. ... Hakamada's acquittal marks the fifth time in postwar Japan — and the first ...
A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s. Now, more than five decades later, the world’s longest ...
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 ...