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Picture of Jesus used to reveal practicing Catholics and sympathizers Picture of the Virgin Mary. A fumi-e (踏み絵, fumi "stepping-on" + e "picture") was a likeness of Jesus or Mary onto which the religious authorities of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan required suspected Christians to step, in order to demonstrate that they were not members of the outlawed religion; otherwise they would be ...
Japanese "penal institutions" include prisons for sentenced adults, juvenile detention centers for sentenced juveniles, and detention houses for pre-trial inmates. [25] In Japan, there are 62 prisons, 7 juvenile prisons, 52 juvenile classification homes, 52 juvenile training schools, 10 Detention Houses, 8 regional parole boards, and 50 ...
Sentenced inmates refer to those who are incarcerated in a juvenile training school in order to serve a sentence of imprisonment or confinement without work as stipulated in Article 56, Paragraph 3 of the Japanese Juveniles Act or those who are incarcerated in a juvenile training school for the execution of cooperatively enforced punishment ...
Detectives took the Turin Shroud, believed to show Jesus' image, and created a photo-fit image from the material. ... After reducing his jaw size, slimming his face and softening his eyes -- a 12 ...
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.
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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.
Jesus Ayala, 19, was ordered to a Nevada psychiatric hospital Wednesday for treatment to restore his competency, Chief Deputy Public Defender David Westbrook told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.