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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.
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 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]
Last year, only eight states in the country imposed 21 death sentences, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The high-water mark was in 1996, when 315 people were sentenced to death.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
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The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center: Texas, 591. Oklahoma, 126. Virginia, 113. Florida, 106 ...
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 ...