Capital Punishment

Man gets death sentence for animation studio fire that left 36 dead, 30 injured

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KYOTO, JAPAN – A man who carried out a deadly firebombing attack on a renowned cartoon studio in Kyoto in 2019 has been sentenced to death by a Japanese court. The inferno claimed 36 lives and left more than 30 individuals significantly injured. Shinji Aoba, the man convicted in the case, was given capital punishment by the Kyoto District Court. The court affirmed that Aoba was mentally competent to be held accountable for his actions, …

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Woman executed for drug trafficking

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Singapore witnessed the execution of a woman for the first time in 19 years on Friday, marking the second death by hanging this week for individuals convicted of drug trafficking. Saridewi Djamani, aged 45, was condemned to death in 2018 for trafficking nearly 31 grams of pure heroin, a quantity the Central Narcotics Bureau stated could fuel the addiction of about 370 users for a week. Despite the clamor from activists to abolish capital punishment …

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