Cheating the Hangman




Demands for death which ended in life imprisonment.

Sentences of death which were reduced to life imprisonment.

Note F= female



2019

Kobayashi Haruka

Kimino Yasuhiro (Sentenced to death-overturned by high court)

Isohi Kyozo (Sentenced to death-overturned by high court)

Nakada-Ludena (Sentenced to death-overturned by high court).


2018

Shibuya Yasumasa

2013

Jun 26 Ino Kazuo

2012


July 20 Kawashita Makoto

2011

April 20 Yin Lina (F) Upheld Osaka H.C

Feb 24 Imamura Munesuke Osaka H.C.

Feb 02
Noji Suguru Fukuoka D.C. Killed one woman and injured another.
(Seeking the death penalty for one murder is a recent measure.)


2010

Nov 10 Hayashi Koji

Mar 02
Kageyama Hiroshi (note: tried before a "saibanin" (mixed jury system).
The prosecution took the rare step of asking for life imprisonment rather than death.


Jun
Shimura Hiroshi (M aged 25) Killed two people. Father paid 80 million yen ($800,000) to the victims.

Jan 29
Yin Lina (F) Osaka D.C Chinese national. Killed her former husband and two other men.

2009


Dec 17
Kiuchi Yoshio 78 year old man who killed 4 family members.

Sep 09
Shiro Tetsuya Murdered the mayor of Nagasaki city in 2007.
Sentenced to death by DC. Sentenced commuted to life by Fukuoka HC.

Apr 09 19 year old male (
Aomori Filicide Case)

Feb 21
Zheng Yongshan (F) Osaka HC. Chinese national. Killed two children.

Feb 17
Hoshijima Takanori Tokyo DC. 34 year old man who killed a 24 year old woman.
(Seeking the death penalty for one murder is a recent measure.) Sentence later upheld by HC.


Jan 13
Hara Taira 61 year old man who killed 5 relatives.

2008

Dec 17
Obayashi Hisato Killed police officer and wounded two others.

Dec 09
Sakamoto Akihiro Co-defendant with Nakai Kayoko (below). Caused 4 deaths.

March 20
Hatakeyama Suzuka (F) Killed two little girls, including her own daughter.

March 21 Iwamori Minoru

2007

Nov 29 Nakai Kayoko (F) (caused 4 deaths)

Jul 19
Takahashi Yuko (F) Killed two husbands, one in 1994, the second in 2000. Prosecutors asked for life.

2006

Oct 16
Murata Mikio

July 4
Yagi Jose Hiroshima DC. Murder and sexual assault of a 7 year old girl.
Peruvian national.