He’s a teenager, but he’s showing his face, and the death penalty…an unprecedented crime against the child
Herald Economy = Reporter Kim Sung-hoon A Japanese court is drawing attention as it sentenced a teenager to death for the first time in history According to local media in Japan on the 23rd, a court in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, sentenced a 19-year-old to death at the time of the Endo Yuki crime, who was put on trial for murder on the 18th Endo broke into a house in Kofu City in the early hours of October 12, 2021, stabbing the couple several times to death
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The victims were the parents of a woman Endo had a crush on, and Endo confessed to the woman and committed the crime against her when she was rejected
The prosecution was able to seek the death penalty for Endo because of the specific juvenile law revised in 2022
Until then, Japan had punished teenagers with lighter punishment than adults without disclosing their personal information, but the revision of the specific juvenile law defined teenagers aged 18 and 19 as “specific boys” so that they could punish them the same as adults and disclose their names and addresses
After reviewing both sides’ arguments, the court sentenced him to death, saying, “With a firm intention of killing, he carefully prepared the crime and brutally killed him.” “The act that took the lives of two people is vicious and self-centered, and the criminal responsibility is heavy,” he explained. “There was no serious apology to the bereaved family.”
“Even considering the age of 19, there is no decisive reason to avoid the extreme sentence,” he said
Only after he was sentenced to death did Endo express his desire to apologize to the bereaved family