Back عقوبة الإعدام في اليابان Arabic Todesstrafe in Japan German Pena capital en Japón Spanish مجازات اعدام در ژاپن Persian Kuolemanrangaistus Japanissa Finnish Peine de mort au Japon French Halálbüntetés Japánban Hungarian Hukuman mati di Jepang ID 日本における死刑 Japanese 일본의 사형제 Korean

Capital punishment in Japan

Tokyo Detention House, which houses one of Japan's seven execution chambers

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Japan. The Penal Code of Japan and several laws list 14 capital crimes. In practice, though, it is applied only for aggravated murder. Executions are carried out by long drop hanging, and take place at one of the seven execution chambers located in major cities across the country. The only crime punishable by a mandatory death sentence is instigation of foreign aggression.

Death sentences are usually passed in cases of multiple murders, although there have been some extremely grave cases where individuals who committed a single murder have been sentenced to death and executed, such as those involving torture, extreme brutality or kidnapping with a demand for ransom.[1][2]

Since 2000, 98 inmates have been executed in Japan,[3] with the most recent being the execution of Tomohiro Katō, the perpetrator of the Akihabara massacre in 2008, who was executed on 26 July 2022.[4] There are currently 107 death row inmates awaiting execution.[5] Japan is one of four developed democracies worldwide to actively apply the death penalty.[a][6]

  1. ^ "LIST OF DEFENDANTS WHO ARE UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH IN JAPAN". 13 September 2018. Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Death penalty for a single murder is quite rare.
  2. ^ "To advise lay judges, Supreme Court institute cites death penalty precedents". japantimes.co.jp. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Capital Punishment in Japan". nippon.com. 27 July 2022. Archived from the original on 1 January 2023. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Assailant in Tokyo's Akihabara fatal rampage executed". Japan Times. 26 July 2022. Archived from the original on 28 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Japan hangs three death-row inmates in first executions since 2019". The Japan Times. 21 December 2021. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2022. Following Tuesday's executions, the number of inmates sitting on death row in Japan stands at 107.
  6. ^ "Japanese man sentenced to death for 2021 crimes as minor". Free Malaysia Today. 18 January 2024.


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