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The Kyoto Animation arson attack ( Japanese: 京都アニメーション放火殺人事件, Hepburn: Kyōto Animēshon hōka satsujin jiken, lit. 'Kyoto Animation arson murder incident') occurred at Kyoto Animation 's Studio 1 building in the Fushimi ward of Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, on the morning of 18 July 2019. The arson killed 36 ...
Original network. TV Tokyo. Original run. October 18, 2010 – December 20, 2010. Episodes. 10. Mori no Asagao (モリのアサガオ, "The Forest's Morning Glories ") is a Japanese manga series by Mamora Gōda. It won the 11th Grand Prize for manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2007. [1] It was adapted into a live-action television drama ...
The Killing Vote[ 7] ( Korean : 국민사형투표) is a 2023 South Korean television series starring Park Hae-jin, Park Sung-woong, and Lim Ji-yeon. It is based on a popular webtoon of the same Korean title serialized on Kakao Webtoon and KakaoPage. [ 8] It aired on SBS TV from August 10 to November 16, 2023, every Thursday at 21:00 ( KST) for ...
Flagellation was a common penalty for crimes such as theft and fighting. Amputation of the nose or ears replaced flogging as penalty early in the Edo period. [citation needed] The 8th Shōgun of Edo, Tokugawa Yoshimune introduced judicial Flogging Penalty, or tataki, in 1720. A convicted criminal could be sentenced to a maximum of 100 lashes.
Capital punishment abolished or struck down. Capital punishment is a legal penalty. In the United States, capital punishment (killing a person as punishment for allegedly committing a crime) is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. [ b][ 1] It is also a legal penalty for some military ...
After the Cold War, many more countries followed: 36 countries abolished capital punishment in the 1990s, with 9 in 1990 alone, 23 in the 2000s, 11 in the 2010s, and 7 so far in the 2020s. Since 1985, there have been only 6 years when no country has abolished the death penalty: 2001, 2003, 2011, 2013, 2018 and 2023.
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [ 1][ 2] is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. [ 3] The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known ...
Tokyo Detention House, which houses one of Japan's seven execution chambers. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Japan. The Penal Code of Japan and several laws list 14 capital crimes. In practice, though, it is applied only for aggravated murder. Executions are carried out by long drop hanging, and take place at one of the seven execution ...