A few days ago, Japanese prosecutors will conduct a psychiatric evaluation of Toru Yamagami to determine whether Toru Yamagami is capable of bearing criminal responsibility.
So the question is, will Tetsuya Yamayama, who assassinated Shinzo Abe, be sentenced to death?
Japan's first assassinated Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi was assassinated by Ahn Jung-geun in 1909, and Ahn Jung-geun was arrested on the spot, and then sentenced to death by hanging by the Kanto Metropolitan Prefectural Court of Japan; On November 4, 1921, then Japanese Prime Minister Kei Hara was assassinated by Genichi Nakaoka in front of Tokyo Station, and Kanichi Nakaoka was sentenced to life imprisonment; In 1930, when Japan's then Prime Minister Yuyuki Hamaguchi was assassinated, the murderer Sagoya Ryu was sentenced to life imprisonment and eventually released from prison on parole; Kishi Nobusuke, Abe's grandfather, was assassinated in 1960 but did not die, and the murderer, Ararama, was sentenced to two years in prison.
Assassinate Ahn Jung-geun of Hirobumi Ito
In recent years, Japan has generally used the death penalty less often. For example, in 2016, when Jiang Mou, a Chinese female student in Japan, was killed, the Tokyo court in Japan finally sentenced defendant Chen Shifeng to 20 years in prison on the charges of intentional homicide and intimidation.
However, on July 26, Japan carried out the first death penalty this year, against Tomoda Kato.
In 2008, Kato Tomoda was hit by a vehicle that frantically crashed into pedestrians, which eventually killed 7 people and injured 10 people to varying degrees. Fourteen years later, the 39-year-old murderer Tomoda Kato was executed on the 26th.
The scene of the 2008 Kato Tomoku case
Japan's Minister of Justice stressed that the order of the hanging at this moment had nothing to do with Abe's assassination.
Japanese Minister of Justice Akihisa Furukawa announced the execution of Tomoda Kato
In this regard, most people in the early stage believed that Toru Yamagami would not be sentenced to death. But judging by Japan's first death penalty executed this year, the incident may become confusing again.
I really don't know if Toru Yamagami will be sentenced to death this time.