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Murderer chokes on her own food while awaiting the death penalty
A prison in Osaka, Japan.
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She was already sentenced to death. However, the life of a Japanese double murderer ended unexpectedly earlier – she choked on her meal.
Her death had already been sealed by Japanese courts, and the 49-year-old Japanese woman had been waiting in prison for several years just to be executed. Now she anticipated her sentence and died surprisingly earlier in an accident: the death row inmate choked on her involuntary last meal and could not be saved.
The woman was found guilty because she is said to have drugged a truck driver in 2009 and then drowned him in the sea. Then, a few months later, she killed an electronics dealer the same way. In the same year she was sentenced to death by the gallows for the two murders.
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Although she protested her innocence, the court did not believe her: On the one hand, she is said to have been the last person to have had contact with the two murdered people, she also owed them money and had bought sleeping pills shortly before the murders.
Although the verdict became final in 2017, the woman was not clear until her death when exactly she should die. In Japan, death row inmates usually only get this information when the Ministry of Justice issues the so-called execution warrant. From this point on, the convicts only have a few hours to live.
Unlike most industrialized countries, Japan continues to use the death penalty, making it the only industrialized country in the world besides the United States that still uses the death penalty. There are currently 105 convicts awaiting execution in Japanese prisons. Human rights activists and the EU have for years denounced Japan’s handling of executions and prison conditions in the country.
Sources: dpa “Picture”