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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.
The execution chamber in Tokyo Detention House simulated with 3D graphics. [20] [21] 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.
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
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.
Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. In general, executions carried out in the territory of a sovereign state when it was a colony or before the sovereign state gained independence are not included. The colours on the map correspond to and have the same meanings as the colours in the charts.
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".
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