DEATH PENALTY IN JAPAN:
DATA & ISSUES
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DATA:
Chart: Sentenced to Death
List of all those under a sentence of death.
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Chart: Women and the Death Penalty:
1) Women Sentenced to Death
2) Women Executed
3)Deaths in Incarceration
4) Metrics Japan v USA
Chart: Non-Japanese (foreign citizens ) sentenced to death.
Chart: Executions and Death Sentences 1989~2020
District, High and Supreme Court Statistics.
Executions 1993 - 2020: Linear Graph.
Easy to read single chart.
Chart: Recent Executions and Deaths in Prison 2005~present.
Issues of Mental Competence:
Current death row inmates and those executed with psychiatric disorders.
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Hangman Cheated
Cases in which prosecutors demanded death but received lesser sentences.
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ISSUES:
Mariko Takeuchi: A Japanese woman on death row in Malaysia
Death Penalty in Japan - Miscellaneous Writings
Seeking Postumous Justice
Even after death, the struggle for vindication continues.
Nagayama Norio
Arrested at 19, executed at 48, his legacy of helping others continues.
Nine judicial factors to be considered for a sentence of death.
Perverse Politicos and Ministers of Death
Menda Sakae
(Japan's first death row exoneree：
34 years in prison)
Secrecy & Who gets executed?
The condemned receive no advance notice.