Man sentenced to death for Kyoto Animation attack | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
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A Japanese court has sentenced a man to death for the arson attack that killed 36 employees at a famous animation studio in Kyoto. The number of deaths is the largest on record in a criminal trial in the country in more than three decades.

I linked NHK, basically the Japanese news source that also publishes in English. However, if you want a lot more context from the case, you can read the Crunchyroll article here that has a lot of background for the case.

  • MentalEdgeEnglish
    19·
    5 months ago

    Oh yeah, japan has the death penalty…

    While I don’t support the death penalty as a judicial measure, as it’s a punishment which cannot be taken back if it ever lands on the wrong person (as it in history has done many times).

    That atrocity is definitely a crime where it would be warranted, were an infallible justice system possible.

      • niktemadur@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        That would be Singapore, scratch the fancy surface and there’s not much underneath. Japan is more nuanced and vast, runs much deeper in so many ways.