was the perpetrator of the in
Hikari, Yamaguchi
is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
The city was founded on April 1, 1943. It was reorganised with different borders on July 1, 1955, and October 4, 2004.
As of October 1, 2016, the city has an estimated population of 51,040, and ...
, Japan, on 14 April 1999.
On that day, when he was 18 years and 1 month old, he killed a woman (then 23 years old) and then performed
necrophilia
Necrophilia, also known as necrophilism, necrolagnia, necrocoitus, necrochlesis, and thanatophilia, is sexual attraction towards or a sexual act involving Cadaver, corpses. It is classified as a paraphilia by the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
on the body,
and also killed her daughter ,
and stole their wallet.
He was charged with rape, murder and robbery, and was handed the
death sentence
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that ...
although he was not of the age of maturity (20 years of age in Japan) at that time (18 years and 1 month).
The appeal was rejected.
During the trial, the brutality of the details of the incident and the demands by the defense lawyers that teenagers ought not receive the death sentence were widely reported in
mass media
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Broadcast media transmit information ...
, sparking a debate within Japan.
References
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Japanese people convicted of murder
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Necrophiles
Japanese murderers of children
Hikari, Yamaguchi