DEATH PENALTY IN JAPAN:
DATA & ISSUES
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DATA:
Sentenced to Death
Comprehensive list of all defendants under a sentence of death.
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Recent Executions and Deaths in Prison
Chart of recent executees and death row inmates who died in prison. 2005~present.
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Hangman Cheated
Cases in which prosecutors demanded death but received lesser sentences.
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ISSUES:
China: Organs for Sale.
Cheating the Hangman
(Demands for death denied, lesser sentence imposed.)
Aiding the Hangman = Damning the Constitution
(Higher courts overturning sentences of life imprisonment
Death Penalty in Japan - Miscellaneous Writings
From the Grave:
The executed continue to live, and to fight.
Gallows: Opened to the public.
Hanging Reportage (2017)
Life Without Parole (LWOP)
Mixed Jury System and the death penalty.
Nagayama Norio
Nine Factors to be considered for a death penalty.
On Death Row
Perverse Politicos and Ministers of Death
Prosecution Inquest Committees
Restorative Justice
Menda Sakae (Japan's first death row exoneree--34 years in prison)
Secrecy
Translation Problems
Voices from Death Row
Who gets executed?