Japan Executes Killer of 8 Schoolchildren

[Captain Japan]

Japan Executes Killer of 8 Schoolchildren

TOKYO - Japan on Tuesday executed a man convicted of killing eight children in a 2001 knife attack at a school in western Japan, NHK and Kyodo News reported.

A couple of notes...

In Japan, names of executed criminals are not released, nor are executions announced beforehand.

He showed little remorse for his act, reportedly telling the court he could have killed more children if he had attacked a kindergarten.

[Taro Toporific]

Japan Executes Killer of 8 Schoolchildren

Takuma looks like such a sweetheart, doesn't he?


Japan sends to gallows assassin of six children14.09.2004, 08.47
TOKYO, September 14 (Itar-Tass) --A violent bandit, one of the most notorious criminals in recent years, Mamoru Takuma, has been sent to the gallows in Osaka prison on Tuesday. ....

Japan Executes Man Who Killed 8 Schoolchildren
Tue Sep 14, 2004 01:48 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) - J-... Takuma, who at one point told a court hearing he wanted to pay for the crime with his life, had withdrawn an appeal filed by defense lawyers.
Capital punishment has aroused little debate among Japanese, who are shown by polls to strongly support the death penalty, and occasional efforts to suspend or abolish it have made little headway.

[kurohinge1]

... Takuma looks like such a sweetheart, doesn't he? ...

That haircut alone should've been enough grounds for capital punishment.

[Big Booger]

Societies who kill criminals are no better than the criminals themselves. Life in prison with hard labor would be far worse than death. The labor could then be used to pay for the expense of their prison stay.

[Cobra]

Societies who kill criminals are no better than the criminals themselves. Life in prison with hard labor would be far worse than death. The labor could then be used to pay for the expense of their prison stay.

really? ah dont think so. cost about 100k to keep a prisoner of that magnitude.
societies who kill criminals.........oh fuck give me a break. another freakin left wing pinky

[tonikoro]

Correct me if I'm wrong,
But I see a blaring contradiction between this murdering f**ks death sentence, and this crazy mofo. I say do'em both. There will be no rehab for persons who commit such crimes, especially not while the taxpayer is fitting the bill for prison care. Life sentence in both accounts is more like the Minimum, not the Maximum. Mr. Badhair seems to know of the severity of doing the murders, so why should we (the public) be apathetic to maintaining is life if he chooses not to live constructively?

[AssKissinger]

Societies who kill criminals are no better than the criminals themselves. Life in prison with hard labor would be far worse than death. The labor could then be used to pay for the expense of their prison stay.

You've been singing a lot of left wing pansy shit lately. We gotta remove these fucking cunts from the world. Hang 'em high and get 'em the fuck outta here!

[Cobra]

When my wife was giving birth in Australia and whilst at the hospital I was standing waiting at reception. There was this huge prisoner (6-7foot) with handcuffs and shackled with two guards standing next to me. I looked up at him and he looked at me. He fucking scared the shit out of me. His eyes werent normal. I would see he was NUTS. He was a big white dude that looked like a computer engineer (the scary fuckers). With the way he looked at me it was like "oh boy if you know what I could do to you......". One of my mates who works as a screw told me who he was. He was a notorious mass murderer. He killed heaps of women and would cut their vaginas out and keep them. He did a bunch of sick shit. He was dubbed the Northern Territorys Hannibal. I was told that his metabolism is so high that they have to feed him the amount 4-5 men would eat. Cause he is nuts I also hear for tranquilizers he would take enough that would put a horse to sleep. He is in for life. He costs taxpayers over 100k a year. He should be put down. Put that money where it is needed. Eduacation...Health whatever. That fuck took from society and he is still taking...100k a year.
Now that we have DNA I believe in capital punishment. I am sure there are people who did not do the crime. And for that I am distressed. However the fact remains there must be that deterent and I am a strong believer in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

[Marvin Feltcher]

Societies who kill criminals are no better than the criminals themselves.

Tell that to the victims of these scum.
For once, I agree with Cobra.

I believe in capital punishment

Takuma was a twisted fucker who bragged of not feeling any remorse for slaying those innocent children. I hope he rots in Hell for eternity. If ever there has been need for a valid argument for the death penalty, Takuma has got to be it.

[Cobra]

Tell that to the victims of these scum.

Thats what I was going to say....

check this out;

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/deathrow.htm

click on schedule for executions and then the offender and it will have a profile in them and their crime. Some pretty sick stuff. Imagine if your sister/daughter/wife/mother was raped and killed. You could never bring them back. And to think what they would have gone through in their last moment and what they would have been thinking.
Or
a kid trying to earn some bucks at a convenience store gets shot and killed for $44.

I think Australia should bring back the death penalty. Doubt it every will.
They are pretty against the death penalty in Europe. Pretty weird. Infact I saw this documentary where this one dutch women would go and visit an inmate who killed in cold blood and elderly couple. She would travel all the way to the US. They would write letters. He said he did it but he says he is sorry. And the dutch chick said "he made a mistake and that we should find forgivness..." those people need to be fried too.

[dimwit]

Societies who kill criminals are no better than the criminals themselves.

Tell that to the victims of these scum.
For once, I agree with Cobra.

I believe in capital punishment

Takuma was a twisted fucker who bragged of not feeling any remorse for slaying those innocent children. I hope he rots in Hell for eternity. If ever there has been need for a valid argument for the death penalty, Takuma has got to be it.

The thing that seems to be lost here is the question of whether the guy was mentally ill. He seems to have spent some time in a mental institution before (which may explain the Pyscho Ward haircut). Given the habit of Japanese Police to force confessions, you know they are going to find this guy sane no matter what the evidence shows. Has anyone in the Japanese Media looked into this guys' history?

[Ketou]

I must admit when I was younger I thought capital punishment wrong, but as I've grown older I sometimes think it's too lenient. Fuckers like this (and that prick in Tochigi) should be lowered into a vat of boiling oil!
I also thought that not announcing the execution beforehand inhumane to the criminals. Waiting for x years not knowing if you were to be executed tomorrow or not. Now, as the victims of course never had prewarning of their impending deaths, I think it a very Buddhist way to bring about the death of the murderer.
I know if someone were to murder my child I would, without hesitation, kill them. Even if it means waiting until the end of their prison sentence. Which ironically is a forced hesitation!!

[Marvin Feltcher]

Imagine if your sister/daughter/wife/mother was raped and killed. You could never bring them back. And to think what they would have gone through in their last moment and what they would have been thinking. Or a kid trying to earn some bucks at a convenience store gets shot and killed for $44.
I think Australia should bring back the death penalty. Doubt it every will.

You're absolutely right...on all counts.

The thing that seems to be lost here is the question of whether the guy was mentally ill. He seems to have spent some time in a mental institution before

I don't care if they're bonkers, either. All the more reason to do away with them for the safety of society as a whole rather than give them a chance to strike again.

Takuma was pure, unadulterated evil. He got better than he deserved, because he died in conditions that were considerably more humane and painless than what he inflicted on those poor little children. He wasn't even tormented by guilt. The only thing I see wrong with the death penalty is that it is not exercised enough.

[Cobra]

Societies who kill criminals are no better than the criminals themselves.

Tell that to the victims of these scum.
For once, I agree with Cobra.

I believe in capital punishment

Takuma was a twisted fucker who bragged of not feeling any remorse for slaying those innocent children. I hope he rots in Hell for eternity. If ever there has been need for a valid argument for the death penalty, Takuma has got to be it.

The thing that seems to be lost here is the question of whether the guy was mentally ill. He seems to have spent some time in a mental institution before (which may explain the Pyscho Ward haircut). Given the habit of Japanese Police to force confessions, you know they are going to find this guy sane no matter what the evidence shows. Has anyone in the Japanese Media looked into this guys' history?

now where have I heard this excuse before.......

OBVIOUSLY you have to be nuts to cut up and kill kids!!!! Obviously you have to in or to murder someone for the thrill of it. Obviously ou have to be to rape someone...........
christ almighty!!! you using this as an excuse. What is this crap about proving they are sane or insane. fuck if they commited the crime then obviously they are INSANE. So what feel sorry for them? it is an excuse? then tell me who will take the responsibility? the shrink who let him/her out of the mental hospital??? seems that no one is willing to take responsibility. I dont five a fuck if he/she is sane or insane or mickey fucking mouse! if they kill someone is such a manner they deserve no more than a bullet to the back of the head. And then to charge the family of the offender for the bullet and clean up.
That is what I respect about the chinese!! (not their investigative work obviously....)

[Marvin Feltcher]

if they kill someone is such a manner they deserve no more than a bullet to the back of the head.

I've got to disagree. I don't think they should be allowed to get away with such a quick and easy death.

[Cobra]

and I will go one more step further.......
I believe if proven that the parents were aware of the illness the offender had and they did nothing for very little in order to get help they should also be prosecuted!
same goes with the Terrorists in chechnya.....Israel and all over the world. Sure they can blow themselves up in the name of ALLAH but if they knew they would be leaving their families with the burdens of their decision such as prison time then perhaps they may think twice about blowing up children in the name of ALLAH.
Time to get tuff with the cunts of the world!

[Marvin Feltcher]

Sorry!

[Cobra]

you serious? saw an execution? hell that would be a little more than your regular sunday footy match!
what did he/she do? what its public??

[Marvin Feltcher]

Heard the huge crowd go deathly quiet, saw the sword swing down and listened to the head roll before the crowd let out with a huge cheer. I didn't really know what had happened until I got back to my hotel and asked what all the commotion had been about.

[japslapper]

Takuma was mentally ill. The head that should roll in this situation is the mental health services chief/policy makers who didnt get him sanctioned and kept in a secure and human hospital before he actually did the deed.

A secure hospital can be humane and safe for the patient/potential criminal and give "normal" people security.

Interesting how pyscological science as an accademic and clinical discipline is very poorly developed in Japan - anyone interested in the subject usually has to head for the UK or US....

.......Japan still has a lot of growing up to (as does the USA - their hero) on this subject:idea:

Sick and Evil are different

[AssKissinger]

Sane or insane...who gives a damn? GUILTY

[Marvin Feltcher]

Sorry!

[Steve Bildermann]

For or against capital punishment (and I am against) this case just screamed HANG HIM and have done with it.

Mentally ill he was but he clearly knew what he had done and knew it was a crime (BTW calling it a crime seems so flimsy - it was pure evil carnage)

Further, he reveled in the attention and deliberately gloated over the parents misery.

I don't know what else could we have done short of torture, hanging, drawing and quartering the bastard.

[Marvin Feltcher]

For or against capital punishment (and I am against) this case just screamed HANG HIM and have done with it.

Mentally ill he was but he clearly knew what he had done and knew it was a crime (BTW calling it a crime seems so flimsy - it was pure evil carnage)

Further, he reveled in the attention and deliberately gloated over the parents misery.

I don't know what else could we have done short of torture, hanging, drawing and quartering the bastard.

Summed up perfectly, Steve.

[Cobra]

Takuma was mentally ill. The head that should roll in this situation is the mental health services chief/policy makers who didnt get him sanctioned and kept in a secure and human hospital before he actually did the deed.

A secure hospital can be humane and safe for the patient/potential criminal and give "normal" people security.

Interesting how pyscological science as an accademic and clinical discipline is very poorly developed in Japan - anyone interested in the subject usually has to head for the UK or US....

.......Japan still has a lot of growing up to (as does the USA - their hero) on this subject:idea:

good post. I do agree with you. pyscological science is

Sick and Evil are different

good post. I do agree with you. pyscological science is [b]extremely[u] important. I have seen a documentary on this subject with regards to harcore criminals and their brain patterns and unhealthy brain chemical make up. The more science can evaluate a persons pyscological make up/danger the better we can prevent tragedies. This is extremely important. Even though people are aware you will get death or spend the rest of your life behind bars for premeditated murder the bastards still do it. This is why just jail dont not and will never work. This problem needs to be combated through pyscological science. However that being said I still believe in capital punishment but not in every circumstance. e.g. some young mothers get extermely distressed and knock one of their own babies off. This while not excuasable is in my opinion different than taking a 10 year old girl...raping her and beating her to death. Both while taking lives are bad are in my opinion slightly different.
In the town where I lived there was this Aboriginal guy (NOT getting racist here!) who had organic brain damage. Anyhow he was free to leave the mental health institution and was givin a free pass. That day he knocked on the door of the house of a young family. The mother answered the door and infront of the kids he stabbed her to death. Who should be accountable? in my opinion he should be given the death penalty not just for what he did but he is incurable and would cost the taxpayers an enormous amount of money to fascilitate. I also believe the people at the mental institution should be accounted for.

[Cobra]

For or against capital punishment (and I am against) this case just screamed HANG HIM and have done with it.

Mentally ill he was but he clearly knew what he had done and knew it was a crime (BTW calling it a crime seems so flimsy - it was pure evil carnage)

Further, he reveled in the attention and deliberately gloated over the parents misery.

I don't know what else could we have done short of torture, hanging, drawing and quartering the bastard.

I know this may sound sick but sometimes when I see shit where the offender doesnt give a fuck they should bring his parents in and shoot them in front of him. and then say "how do you like that tough boy".
I know it would never happend but I bet he would shit his pants then!

[Mulboyne]

A secure hospital can be humane and safe for the patient/potential criminal and give "normal" people security.

By which, you probably don't mean:
FG Thread: Helping the Criminally Insane in Japan

One unforgettable memory residents of Higashisefurison have is of a 17-year-old boy who received inpatient treatment at the center.

In May 2000, he committed a bus-jacking when he left the center for a permitted overnight trip, killing one passenger on an express bus and injuring four others.

[Steve Bildermann]

know this may sound sick but sometimes when I see shit where the offender doesnt give a fuck they should bring his parents in and shoot them in front of him.

Well actually that type of thing used to happen in Japan and China about 175 years ago.

Parents of captured criminals would be punished just as severely as the offender.

In some cases the offender was sentenced to administer torture to his own parents or in some cases to his or her own children.

[Captain Japan]

When it rains it pours...

Yakuza boss on death row executed for murder of 3 in 1988

A former Yakuza boss who had been on death row for murdering three other gangsters in 1988 was executed Tuesday, sources familiar with the situation said.

[Cobra]

know this may sound sick but sometimes when I see shit where the offender doesnt give a fuck they should bring his parents in and shoot them in front of him.

Well actually that type of thing used to happen in Japan and China about 175 years ago.

Parents of captured criminals would be punished just as severely as the offender.

In some cases the offender was sentenced to administer torture to his own parents or in some cases to his or her own children.

Shit!

anyone remember that Samantha Runnion case in the US a couple years ago? I think she was 6 years old and was taken from her home and raped and killed and then left our bush in a provocative position (legs open??) dead.
Man she looked like my own daughter. Im a grown man and dont cry but boy did that make me have a few tears. The cunt was caught. Funny though before he was caught when he and his mother were watching the news on this the mother said "when they catch him they should fry him!!".
Hopefully that is what they will do.
Man its the worst when they hurt kids.