Current Death Penalty Status: Retentionist
Method of execution: Hanging
|
|
Reported Executions |
Reported Death Sentences |
|
2013 |
5* |
+ |
|
2012 |
7 |
3 |
|
2011 |
0 |
10 |
|
2010 |
2 |
14 |
|
2009 |
7 |
34 |
|
2008 |
15 |
27 |
|
2007 |
9 |
23 |
|
2006 |
4 |
44 |
*As of 25 June 2013
ADPAN Members in Japan:
- Center for Prisoners Rights
- Forum 90
- AI Japan
Note:
For the 1st time in 19 years, there were no executions in Japan in 2011.
Names of those executed in 2013:
- Tokuhisa Kumagai (September) for murder
- Yoshihide Miyagi (April) for murder
- Katsuji Hamasaki (April) for murder
- Kaoru Kobayashi (February) for murder
- Masahiro Kanagawa (February) for murder
- Keiki Muto (February) for murder
