On July 26, the Japanese Justice Ministry announced Tomohiro Kato’s execution for killing seven people and injuring 10 others by ramming a truck into holidaymaker pedestrians and stabbing at Akihabara on June 8, 2008. The execution came seven years and five months after Kato’s death sentence. File photo: EPA-EFE
Japan’s netizens express glee, relief over execution of Akihabara mass murderer
- Even as Japan’s netizens lament the 14 years it took for justice to be done, most approve of the execution of a man who killed seven people in 2008
- Amnesty International called the hanging ‘a callous attack on the right to life’ and urged Japan to introduce an immediate moratorium on executions
On July 26, the Japanese Justice Ministry announced Tomohiro Kato’s execution for killing seven people and injuring 10 others by ramming a truck into holidaymaker pedestrians and stabbing at Akihabara on June 8, 2008. The execution came seven years and five months after Kato’s death sentence. File photo: EPA-EFE
