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Death Penalty Database - Japan Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world. Published by the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide. Information current as of: 12 November 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
Murder (殺人, satsujin) in Japanese law constitutes when someone intentionally kills another person without justification. The crime of murder is specified in Chapter XXVI of the Japanese criminal code. It is punishable by five years to life in prison, and with the death penalty if aggravating circumstances are proven. The only exception is ...
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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.
Juveniles not tried by an ordinary court are detained in juvenile training schools (typical juvenile correctional institutions); these prisoners represented 2,872 at the end of 2014. The 52 Juvenile institutions are under the responsibility of the prison administration. Minors under 18 years of age cannot be sentenced to the death penalty.
A lawsuit challenging Japan’s practice of giving death row inmates just a couple hours notice before execution was dismissed on Monday. Japanese Court Dismisses Death Row Inmates’ Lawsuit ...
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 ...
Flagellation was a common penalty for crimes such as theft and fighting. Amputation of the nose or ears replaced flogging as penalty early in the Edo period. [citation needed] The 8th Shōgun of Edo, Tokugawa Yoshimune introduced judicial Flogging Penalty, or tataki, in 1720. A convicted criminal could be sentenced to a maximum of 100 lashes.