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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 ...
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.
David T. Johnson, "Japan’s Secretive Death Penalty Policy: Contours, Origins, Justifications, and Meanings" Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, vol. 7(2006) pp. 62-124 Archived 27 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine; Death Penalty Database - Japan Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Academic research database on the laws ...
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 ...
Penalties range from fines and short-term incarceration to compulsory labor and the death penalty. Heavier penalties are meted out to repeat offenders. Capital punishment is a legal penalty for aggravated murder in Japan, and is usually imposed for multiple murders. Executions are carried out by hanging.
Japanese anti–death penalty activists (11 P) E. Execution sites in Japan (9 P) People executed by Japan (11 C, 10 P) P. Prisoners sentenced to death by Japan (1 C ...
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
Tetsuya Yamagami (Japanese: 山上 徹也, Hepburn: Yamagami Tetsuya, born 10 September 1980) is a Japanese man who has admitted to assassinating Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, on 8 July 2022. [5] A resident of Nara, he was arrested at the scene of the assassination. He was 41 years old, had no prior criminal history, and was ...