OSAKA -- Mamoru Takuma, 39, was sentenced to death Thursday for the murder of eight schoolchildren at Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, in June 2001
Looks like being certified mental(schizoid) is no excuse for them to execute here.....and even then no niceties at all
In the USA you can appeal and your actually informed and your relatives are informed when your date with the electricity company is due. Here in Nipon you can wait around for ten years or so(probably also to make sure national longlivity stats are not adjusted
Also here in Japan no pictures - on TV and in the papers you get to see:

Thanks to the good old BBC you can see his real face..

In a few years I am sure you will be able to see it lall ive on CNN
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