Genzo Kurita
Genzo Kurita (栗田 源蔵 Kurita Genzō, November 3, 1926 – October 14, 1959) wis a Japanese serial killer, who murthert aicht fowk.
Genzo Kurita | |
|---|---|
| Born | Genzo Kurita 3 November 1926 Akita, Japan |
| Dee'd | 14 October 1959 (aged 32) |
Cause o daith | Daith sentence bi hangin |
Criminal penalty | Daith |
| Killins | |
| Victims | 8 |
Span o killins | Februar 1948–Januar 13, 1952 |
| Kintra | Japan |
| State(s) | Chiba, Tochigi, Shizuoka |
Date apprehendit | Januar 16, 1952 |
Murthers
eeditKurita murthered twa girlfriends in Februar 1948. On August 8, 1951, he raped an murthert a 24-year-auld woman beside her baby. He then haed sex wi her corpse.
On October 11, 1951, he rapit an murthert a 29-year-auld wumman. He threw her three childer frae the clint cried Osen Korogashi, ane survivit.
Kurita killed a 63-year-auld wumman an her 24-year-auld niece on Januar 13, 1952. Efter the murthers, he haed sex wi the niece's deid bouk. At the crime scene, the polis foond his fingerprints.
Arrest, trial, an execution
eeditKurita wis arrestit on Januar 16, 1952.
On August 12, 1952, the destrict court in Chiba sentencit him tae daith for the last twa murthers. The destrict court in Utsunomiya sentencit him tae daith for sax ithers on Dizember 21, 1953. He appealed the sentences, but acause o mental instability he retractit his appeals on October 21, 1954. He wis considered tae be neurotic an a danger tae hissel. He wis executit on October 14, 1959.
Eftermath
eeditOn Mey 10, 1956, a pro-daith penalty prosecutor in Supreme Public Prosecutors Office introducit Kurita intae a debate aboot caipital punishment in the Diet.[1]
See an aw
eeditReferences
eedit- ↑ 第024回国会 法務委員会公聴会 第2号 (in Japanese). National Diet Library. 10 Mey 1956. Archived frae the original on 10 December 2019. Retrieved 9 Januar 2008.
Freemit airtins
eedit- (in Japanese) Article on the serial murders Archived 2007-11-11 at the Wayback Machine