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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, 9 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
Japan's dance with the death penalty - report by Matthew Carney broadcast by ABC Radio National Sunday, 15 February 2015, which includes an interview with Iwao Hakamada who was released after 43 years on death row. Japan executes two prisoners amid protests. The Guardian. Published 26 March 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
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 Chiba Prison received inmates without advanced criminal inclination and who do not have sentences longer than 10 years – e.g., murder without the possibility of repeating a crime again. Ichihara Prison (Chiba) is specialized for traffic offenders – e.g., repetitive offenders and those who killed others while driving.
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A man believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court at age 88. On Thursday, Sept. 26, the Shizuoka District Court announced the verdict of Iwao ...
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.
A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s. Now, more than five decades later, the world’s longest ...