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After a four-year moratorium, executions resumed in 1993 and up to 15 have taken place almost each year since then. Thirteen of those executed in 2018, under former Minister of Justice and former think tank researcher Yōko Kamikawa , had taken part in the Tokyo subway sarin attack of 1995.
Beginning in the Nara period (710–794), the death penalty was infrequently used, and the death penalty was abolished completely in the Heian period (794–1185). The death penalty was not used for 346 years following the execution of Fujiwara no Nakanari in 810, until it was revived during the Hōgen rebellion of 1156.
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]
A juvenile accomplice was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment. 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.
Japan: 26 July 2022 [124] Tomohiro Katō: murder: hanging: D Jordan: 4 March 2017 [125] 15 unnamed men murder and terrorism: hanging: B Kazakhstan: 2003: D Kuwait: 19 January 2025 [126] 4 unnamed men and one unnamed woman murder: hanging: A Kyrgyzstan: none since independence on 25 December 1991: C Laos: 1989 [127] C Lebanon: 17 January 2004 ...
As of 2022, 36 of the 40 countries and territories that are classified by the IMF as developed countries (advanced economies), including China's Special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau [41] have completely abolished the death penalty. Only the United States, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan retain the death penalty for ordinary crimes ...
Texas executed eight inmates last year and five this year. The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center ...
Juveniles not tried by an ordinary court are detained in juvenile training schools (typical juvenile correctional institutions); these prisoners represented 2,872 at the end of 2014. The 52 Juvenile institutions are under the responsibility of the prison administration. Minors under 18 years of age cannot be sentenced to the death penalty.