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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.
An execution was also carried out by the United States Air Force in Japan in 1950. All executions carried out by the Army from 1942 to 1948 were performed under the authority of the Articles of War of June 4, 1920, an Act of Congress which governed military justice between 1920 and 1951.
When someone convicted of a capital crime is to be executed in Japan, the execution warrant is signed by the Minister of Justice, after internal consultations within the justice ministry. [citation needed] As of 2007, according to a BBC report of statements in Japanese media, men condemned are kept in 'toilet-sized cells'.
Murdered three people in Japan and the Philippines for insurance fraud between 1994 and 1996. 23 years, 5 days His twin brother Akihiro was also sentenced to death, but died awaiting execution in 2016. Eiichi Shimoura Kenji Matsumoto Murdered two people during separate robberies in September 1990 and September 1991. 31 years, 140 days
Hamida Djandoubi (1977) – guillotined in Marseille for murder – last execution in France, last execution in Western world to be carried out by beheading, and last execution by guillotine anywhere in the world; Hervé Cornara (2015) – murder linked to terrorism in Lyon by Yassin Salhi in the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack
20 unnamed men and one unnamed woman terrorism: hanging: B Israel: 31 May 1962: Adolf Eichmann: crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people hanging: D 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]
Tachibana, alongside 11 other Japanese personnel, were tried in August 1946 in relation to the execution of U.S. Navy airmen, and the cannibalism of at least one of them, during August 1944. Because military and international law did not specifically deal with cannibalism, they were tried for murder and "prevention of honorable burial".
Two of the three - Yang Ning and Wang Liang – fled to China where they were arrested. Yang was executed and Wang sentenced to life imprisonment. The third, Wei Wei, was arrested in Japan and was held on death row until finally executed in December 2019. 18 - 20 September 2004 Ōmuta murders: Omuta, Fukuoka: Kitamura-gumi 4