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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 ...
1 31 Akira Tsuda 59 M Hiroshima: Single murder 1 32 Masashi Satou 62 M 10 September 1999 Tokyo Multiple murders* 1 Takao Jinnouchi: 33 Katsutoshi Takada 61 M Sendai Multiple murders* 1 34 Tetsuyuki Morikawa: 69 M Fukuoka Multiple murders* 2 35 Teruo Ono 62 M 17 December 1999 Fukuoka Multiple murders* 1 Hideo Usui: 36 Kazuo Sagawa 48 M Tokyo
1 November 2023 [38] five unnamed convicts murder: firing squad: A South Africa: 14 November 1989 [4] Solomon Ngobeni: murder: hanging: D South Sudan: 7 January 2022 [39] Babu Emmanuel Lokiri triple murder hanging: D Sudan: 9 February 2021 [40] Eliza Aban Othu murder: hanging: C Tanzania: October 1994 [4] 7 unnamed men, 1 unnamed woman A Togo ...
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]
[3] [4] Justin McCurry of The Guardian described the attack as one of the worst crimes committed on Japanese soil in modern history. [2] Uematsu was sentenced to death on 16 March 2020, after the prosecution sought the maximum penalty for murder in his trial; as of July 2022, he was on death row awaiting execution. [5]
Recalling also the resolutions on the question of the death penalty adopted over the past decade by the Commission on Human Rights in all consecutive sessions, the last being its resolution 2005/59 of 20 April 2005, [d] in which the Commission called upon states that still maintain the death penalty to abolish it completely and, in the meantime ...
Of all present European countries, San Marino, Portugal and the Netherlands were the first to abolish capital punishment; Romania banned it even earlier in 1864, but it was much later reintroduced from 1936 to 1990 during the dictatorial and communist eras; in Italy the nationwide ban on the death penalty dates from 1889 (capital punishment had ...
Tokyo Detention House. Within the criminal justice system of Japan, there exist three basic features that characterize its operations.First, the institutions—police, government prosecutors' offices, courts, and correctional organs—maintain close and cooperative relations with each other, consulting frequently on how best to accomplish the shared goals of limiting and controlling crime.