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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.
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
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 KatÅ: murder: hanging: D Jordan: 4 March 2017 [124] 15 unnamed men murder and terrorism: hanging: B Kazakhstan: 2003: D Kuwait: 19 January 2025 [125]
By Thomas Wilson TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan was on alert on Saturday amid fears that the executions of the former leader and members of a doomsday cult behind the deadly Tokyo subway sarin gas attack ...
Genzo Kurita, Japanese serial killer (14 October 1959) Adnan Menderes, Turkish Prime Minister between 1950 and 1960 (17 September 1961) Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi major organizer of the Holocaust and war criminal (1 June 1962) Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin, murderers, executed side by side in the last executions performed in Canada (11 ...
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
Diagram of the three-button execution method. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is in this facility. All executions in Japan are carried out by hanging.The execution chamber in Tokyo has a trap door, which is operated by one of the three buttons in the next-door room, which are simultaneously pressed by three prison staff members so that none of them will know who activated the drop.