Recent News
✽August
2010✽
Tokyo Gallows Revealed: World Takes
Note
✽July
2010✽
Fukawa Case: 2 men expected to be
acquitted in retrial after 30 yrs ( More )
TWO EXECUTIONS: AI member and former
abolitionist justice minister Keiko Chiba signs the execution
warrant and witnesses the hangings. (More)
✽June
2010✽
Once innocent summit activists
declared guilty! Case of the Month for June 2009.
(More)
Tokyo High Court overturns not guilty drug possesion decision,
sentences defendant to prison. ( More )
Welcome to the
Japan Innocence and Death Penalty
Research Center
Michael H. Fox
Director
Execution Watch 2010 =
2
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Death Sentences
Supreme Court = 3
High Courts =
District Courts =
2
Total = 5
Hangman
Cheated:
Demands for death denied= 2
Death Sentences Reduced=1
Constitution
Violated
Life Imprisonment Overturned
Death Sentence Issued: = 0
Execution
Chamber
Tokyo Detention Center
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Case
of the Month
The Bakutori 4 (Bombmakers) Case
Issue: Double Jeopardy
After a marathon 15 year incarceration for crimes carrying less time of punishment, three leftist activists, previously acquitted, were declared guilty. Arrested in 1987, the trial goes on. (More)
