Death Penalty Around World

Death Penalty is all over the world from Untied State to China. Capital Punishment. North Korea is one country that is still using it along with Japan, Egypt, and Vietnam.

North Korea used the “Death Penalty” for the people who were charged with grand theft, murder, rape and drug smuggling.  It is not pretty and the Execution is carried out in public.   They kill by firing squad and North Korea is one of the five countries who still preform public executions.

In Egypt, one of oldest countries that use the death penalty, dates back to Ancient Egypt.  If you broke any of the MAs laws or any crime it is punishment by death.  Early this year Egyptian court gave a death sentence to 21 people because a mass attack during a soccer game at Port Said Stadium know as Port Said Stadium Disaster.

Finally, Japan is different from the United States.  They only give the death penalty to treason and murder, but in 4th century Japan, they were heavily influenced by the Chinese judicial system and changed it up time and time again.  Japan was a sentencing guideline, this guideline came to Japan after the trial of Norio Nagayama a 19- year-old from disadvantaged background, who committed four murders, in 1968 and finally hanged in 1997.

The nine criteria are as follows:

1. Degree of viciousness

2. Motive

3. How the crime was committed; especially the manner in which the victim was killed

4. Outcome of the crime; especially the number of victims

5. Sentiment of the bereaved family member

6. Impact of the crime on Japanese society

7. Defendant’s Age (in Japan, someone is a minor until the age of 20)

8. Defendant’s previous criminal record

9. Degree of remorse shown by the defendant  

Japan will give the death sentence to minors who commit capital crimes at 18 or 19.  Only six have died by the death penalty in 2013 so far.  They are as follows:

Masahiro Kanagawa age 29 died 2/21/13

Keiki Kano age 62 died 2/21/13

Kaoru Kobayashi age 44 died 2/21/13

Katsuji Hamasaki age 64 died 4/26/13

Yoshihide Miyagi age 56 died 4/26/13

Tokuhisa Kumagai age 73 died 9/12/13