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Japan Innocence and Death Penalty Information Center www.jiadep.org CHART: Psychological competence of death row prisoners. A) list of death row inmates with psychiatric disorders. (Above) B) list of executed death row inmates with psychiatric disorders. (Below) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Supreme Court Confirmed Convictions (x10) High Court Convictions (x2) District Court Convictions (x3) Total = 15 Recently Executed: (x3) |
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Supreme Court Convictions |
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Ohama Shosan 大濱松三 born 1928 age=91 Tokyo 1977/04/16 Withdraws appeal 1975/10/20 Yokohama DC Odawara Branch |
Piano Noise Murder Case 1974/08/28 ピアノ騒音殺人事件 |
Mental competence is in dispute. Psychiatrist suggested a lesser sentence. Defendant withdrew appeal and death sentence was finalized. |
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Matsumoto Kenji 松本健次 age=68 Osaka 2000/04/04 SC 1996/02/21 Osaka HC 1993/09/17 Otsu DC |
Double Murder & Robbery Case ２件強盗殺人事件 1990.09.19 & 1991.09 |
Was born with Minamata disease and is mentally retarded. His brother, assumed to be the main criminal, later committed suicide. Request for retrial filed. |
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Horie Yoshio 堀江守男 Sendai 2005/09/26 SC 2005/09/26 Sendai DC 1991/03/29 Sendai HC |
Elderly Couple Murder Case 老夫婦殺人事件 1986/02/20 |
Defendant's psychological condition is in dispute |
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Zohta Hiroshi 造田博 b. 1978 Tokyo 2007/04/19 SC 2003/09/29 Tokyo HC 2002/01/18 Tokyo DC |
Tokyo/Ikebukuro Random Murder Case 東京・池袋「通り魔」殺傷事件 1999/09/08 |
Two people were killed and six injured in an unplanned random murder. Defense claims insanity. |
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Koizumi Takeshi 小泉毅 b. 1962 2014/06/13 SC 2011/12/26 Tokyo HC 2010/03/30 Saitama DC |
Civil Servant's Home Multiple Murders 厚生事務次官宅連続襲撃事件 2008/Jan 17 |
Suffers from schizophrenia. Claims the murders were vengeance against the government for the euthanzation of his childhood dog. |
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Fujishiro Yasutaka 藤城康孝 b. 1957 2015/05/25 SC 2013/04/26 Osaka HC 2009/05/29 Kobe DC |
Murder of 7 relatives 親類ら７人を刺殺 2004/08/02 |
Crime occurred in Kakogawa city. Psychiatric report stated, "suffers from paranoid disorders and is unable to make rational decisions." |
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加藤智大 b. 1983 2015/02/02 SC 2012/09/12 Tokyo HC 2011/03/24 Tokyo DC |
Akihabara Vehicular and Stabbing Rampage Seven Deaths 2008/June 8 |
Mental competency is in dispute. ( More ) |
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Homi Kousei 保見光成 b. 1950 2019/07/11 SC 2016/09/13 HIroshima HC 2015/07/28 Yamaguchi DC |
Yamaguchi Elderly Murder/Arson Case (x5) |
23rd death sentence handed down by mixed jurors. Aged 63 at time of crime. Mental competency is in dispute. |
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High Court Convictions (x2) |
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Kakehi Chisako (F) 筧千佐子 b. 1947 2019/05/23 Osaka HC 2017/11/7 Kyoto DC |
Triple Murder (Husband and two common law partners) |
27th death sentence handed down by mixed jurors. 70 years old at time of sentence. Suffers from dementia. High court denied a second psychiatric review. More |
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District Court Convictions (x2) |
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Tsuchiya Kazuya 土屋和也 b. 1989 2016/ 07/20 Maebashi DC |
Maebashi Elderly Stabbing Murder Case ( x2) |
25th death sentence handed down by mixed jurors. Defendant, raised in children's home since age 4, suffers personality disorders. ( More ) |
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Hirano Tatsuhiko 平野達彦 b. 1974 2017/03/22 Kobe DC |
Awaji Island Multiple Stabbing Murder Case (x5) |
26th death sentence handed down by mixed jurors. Mental competency in dispute. Claims that government agents disturbed his brain with electro-magnetic radiation. Defense demanded lesser sentence based on diminished capacity. ( More ) |
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Nakada-Ludena Vayron Jonathan b. 1986 2018/03/09 |
Kumagaya Multiple Murder Case ( x6) |
29th death sentence handed down by mixed jurors. Peruvian citizen. Defense claims the defendant suffers from severe schizophrenia (More) |
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Executed |
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Uwabe Yasuaki 上部康明 b, 64/03/06 Hiroshima 12/03/29 Executed ~~~~~~~~~~ 08/07/11 SC 05/06/28 Hiroshima HC 02/09/20 Yamaguchi DC Shimoseki Branch |
Shimonoseki Station Multiple Murders (x5) & injuries (10) 下関駅５人殺害 １０人傷害事件 99/09/29 |
Defendant's psychological condition was in dispute by experts. ( More ) |
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Kanagawa Masahiro 金川真大 b. 1983 〜〜〜 Executed: 2013/02/21 〜〜〜〜 10/01/05(?) SC 09/12/18 Mito DC |
ＪＲ荒川沖駅通り魔事件等 Ibaraki Murder (x1) and JR Station Random Stabbings 2008/March 19 & 23 |
Sentence confirmed after defendant withdraws appeals. ( More ) |
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Eto Sachiko (F) 江藤幸子 b. 1947 Executed: 2012/09/27 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 08/09/16 SC 05/11/22 Sendai HC 02/05/10 Fukushima DC |
Sukagawa Exorcist Deaths(x6) 須賀川信者6人変死事件 Dec '94 ~ June '95 |
The defendant's mental competence was in dispute by experts. Co-conspirators received lesser sentences. ( More ) |
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川崎政則 b. 1946 aged 61 at time of crime Executed 2014/06/26 ~~~~~ 12/07/12 SC 09/10/14 Fukuoka HC 09/03/16 Takamatsu DC |
Grandmother & Two Grandaughter Murders 2007 Nov 16 |
Despite mutual agreement by the prosecution and the defense that the defendant is mentally handicapped, the court ignored the defense's psychiatrist. The high court decision was handed down only 4 days after final hearing. |
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Matsumoto Chizuo 松本知津夫 Tokyo 22/07/08 Family files suit alleging that execution of the psychologically incompetent is illegal. (More) Executed: 2018/07/06 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 09/03/27 SC 06/03/27 Tokyo HC 04/02/27 Tokyo DC |
Crimes of Aum Shinrikyo 89/11~95/03 |
Founder of Aum Shinrikyo, aka Asahara Shoko. Refused to meet with lawyers or speak in court. Had been blind for many years. Family has filed civil suit alleging that the execution was illegal. [ More ] |