JAPANESE MURDERERS EXECUTED IN JAPAN FROM 2004 TO 2010

14 SEPTEMBER 2004:
Sueo Shimazaki, 59, was hanged in Fukuoka.
CASE: He was convicted of killing three gangsters in 1988.

Mamoru Takuma (宅間 守 Takuma Mamoru, November 23, 1963 – September 14, 2004) was a Japanese janitor who committed mass murder of 8 people and wounded 15 others in the 2001 Osaka school massacre. He had been convicted and imprisoned for rape before the massacre.
CASE: The Osaka School Massacre took place on June 8, 2001, at Ikeda Elementary School, an elite primary school affiliated with Osaka Kyoiku University in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. At 10:15 that morning, 37-year-old former janitor Mamoru Takuma entered the school armed with a kitchen knife and began stabbing numerous school children and teachers. He killed eight children, mostly between the ages of seven and eight, and seriously wounded thirteen other children and two teachers. Takuma was later convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out on September 14, 2004. The Osaka School Massacre was the second largest mass murder, along with the Matsumoto incident, in recent Japanese history, exceeded both of the crimes only by the fatalities caused in the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. This incident, however, was set apart by the young age of the victims, by its occurrence at a school, and by the murderer's history of mental illness. Because of these factors, the Osaka School Massacre raised questions in Japan about the country's social policies regarding the treatment of mental illness, the rights of criminals and victims, and the accessibility and security of Japanese schools.
The boy was in the first year and the girls were in the second year.
• Yuki Hongo (本郷優希 Hongō Yūki)
• Mayuko Isaka (猪阪真宥子 Isaka Mayuko)
• Yuka Kiso (木曽友香 Kiso Yūka)
• Ayano Moriwaki (森脇綾乃 Moriwaki Ayano)
• Maki Sakai (酒井麻希 Sakai Maki)
• Takahiro Totsuka (戸塚健大 Totsuta Takahiro) (the only male student to die in the attack)
• Hana Tsukamoto (塚本花菜 Tsukamoto Hana)
• Rena Yamashita (山下玲奈 Yamashita Rena)





16 SEPTEMBER 2005:
Susumu kitagawa, 58, was hanged in Osaka.
CASE: He was a convicted of robbing, raping and murdering a girl in Chiba Prefecture in 1983 and slaying a woman in Kochi Prefecture in 1989 in a similar manner. Kitagawa was the 8th inmate executed since Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi took office in April 2001. The execution was the 1st signed by Chieko Noono, who became justice minister last September. It has been about 1 year since the last executions, when Mamoru Takuma went to the gallows for murdering 8 children in Osaka in 2001 in a school attack, as did triple-murderer mobster Sueo Shinmaki. The Supreme Court in February 2000 rejected Kitagawa's appeal of his sentence. Kitagawa, from Kochi Prefecture, raped and strangled an 18-year-old girl in the city of Chiba and took 15,000 yen from her in August 1983, and raped and murdered a 24-year-old woman in Kochi and took 20,000 yen from her in February 1989, the top court said.

25 DECEMBER 2006:
Hiroshi Hidaka (日高 広明, Hidaka Hiroaki, April 1962 – December 25, 2006 in Hiroshima) was a Japanese serial killer. Hidaka was born in the Miyazaki Prefecture. He was originally an excellent student, but he failed to enter the University of Tsukuba, his target college. He entered the Fukuoka University instead, but eventually dropped out. He often borrowed money, drank and went to prostitutes. In April 1989, he moved to Hiroshima and began to work as a taxi driver. Hidaka married in 1991, and had a daughter in 1993, but his wife entered a mental hospital.
CASE: Hidaka killed and robbed four women between April and September 1996. One of his victims was a 16-year-old girl who engaged in Enjo kōsai. He was arrested on September 21, 1996. The district court in Hiroshima sentenced Hidaka to death on February 9, 2000, a sentence he didn't appeal. He was executed by hanging on December 25, 2006. After his execution, his lawyer, Shuichi Adachi, protested that he had been illegally refused access to his client by prison authorities.

Yoshimitsu Akiyama, 77, was hanged in Tokyo.
CASE: Akiyama was convicted of murdering a factory boss in Chiba in 1975 and robbing him of 10 million yen. For the rest of his life, he maintained that his brother Taro, who was convicted of a lesser offense in the incident, bore most responsibility for the crime.

Yoshio Fujinami, 65, was hanged in Tokyo.
CASE: Fujinami attacked his ex-wife's family with a knife in Tochigi Prefecture in 1981, killing two of her brothers and robbing the family. His defense lawyers argued that he was addicted to amphetamines and had snapped after his in-laws prevented him from meeting his estranged wife.

Michio Fukuoka, 64, was hanged in Osaka.
CASE: He claimed that he was innocent of killing three people, including his wife's sister, over three years between 1978 and 1981 in Kochi Prefecture in Shikoku. He protested to the end that the police forced his confession and ignored his alibi.

27 APRIL 2007:
Yoshikatsu Oda, 59, was hanged in Fukuoka.
CASE: He was sentenced to hang in March 2000 for the murders of two people in which he tried to acquire their insurance money. The Fukuoka District Court ruled in 2000 that he conspired with an acquaintance to fatally stab the couple, who were in their 20s, and make it look like a double-suicide. Oda remained mum on the charges against him during the early stages of the trial but later owned up to the slayings. His sentence was finalized after he withdrew his counsel's appeal to the Fukuoka High Court.

Masahiro Tanaka, 42, was hanged in Tokyo.
CASE: Masahiro Tanaka's death sentence was upheld by the top court in September 2000. Tanaka was arrested for four murders between 1984 and 1991, including choking his aunt to death and stabbing a porn shop owner in Kagawa Prefecture. He was also convicted of fraud, robbery and of dumping his aunt's corpse.

Kosaku Nada, 56, was hanged in Osaka.
CASE: According to information provided by Amnesty, Kosaku Nada was put to death for the 1983 slaying of a coworker's wife and her son in Hyogo Prefecture. Nada strangled the mother with a rope and dropped the 4-year-old son from a bridge into the Chikusa River. He used the insurance card he stole from the woman to obtain 1 million yen in loans from a consumer lender. Nada had claimed he did not intend to kill the two. The Supreme Court in September 1992 finalized his sentence.

24 AUGUST 2007:
Hifumi Takezawa, 69, was hanged in Tokyo.
CASE: In 1990, Takezawa, a taxi driver, killed a 68-year old man whom he mistakenly believed was having an affair with his wife. He took him into a forest, forced him to write a fake suicide note, strangled him and set fire to his car. Three years later, for the same reason, he and an accomplice broke into a house and stabbed to death a man and his wife before burning down their house. His lawyers argued that a stroke had turned Takezawa into a jealous paranoiac who was not responsible for his actions, but his appeals were rejected.

Kozo Segawa, 60, was hanged in Nagoya.
CASE: He shot to death the owner of a Toyama Prefecture-based temp-staff agency and the man's wife in May 1991, and stole ¥12 million from their house. He was also charged with other cases of fraud and theft. The Supreme Court finalized his sentence in January 2001.

Yoshio Iwamoto, 62, was hanged in Tokyo.
CASE: He was executed for the 1996 slaying of a 40-year-old woman in Tokyo's Toshima Ward during a robbery. In 1997, he also murdered and stole ¥240,000 from a distant relative who owned a plating factory in Tokyo's Taito Ward. Later investigations revealed he was in debt because of his pachinko habit. Iwamoto owned up to the charges at court and had asked for capital punishment. His sentence was finalized in 2001.

7 DECEMBER 2007:
Seiha Fujima, 47, was hanged in Tokyo.
CASE: He fatally stabbed a high school girl, 16, her 13-year-old sister, and their 45-year-old mother in 1982 at their home in Kanagawa Prefecture, after the girl turned down his romantic advances. He then stabbed to death a man, 19, who had helped him kill the 3 women, in Hyogo Prefecture. In 1981, Fujima killed a 20-year-old man in Yokohama because of a dispute over money.

Hiroki Fukawa, 42, was hanged in Tokyo.
CASE: On 22 March 2001, the court found Hiroki Fukawa, 35, guilty of stabbing Shin Yamada and her 65-year-old daughter, Hiro, to death in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward. He reportedly wanted to steal their money to pay off the club where his hostess girlfriend worked.
In supporting prosecutors' demand for the death penalty, the court said Fukawa bears grave responsibility for "the loss of two precious lives."
Describing Fukawa's conduct as "persistent and cruel," the court said it had no choice but to sentence him to death. According to the court, Fukawa visited the residence of the Yamada family, who were his clients, to borrow money in April 1999.
Fukawa wanted the money to convince his live-in girlfriend to quit her hostess job, it said.
After Shin refused to lend him money, Fukawa stabbed her and her daughter to death and then unsuccessfully attempted to find some cash to steal, the court said.
Handing down the punishment, presiding Judge Kiyohi Kimura said Fukawa's crime came about because of his selfish motivation to make a good impression on his girlfriend and to monopolize her.
Saying Yamada had also swindled two other women out of 9.57 million yen in early 1999 to spend on his girlfriend, the judge said Fukawa apparently had no idea of the value of money and had an extraordinary attachment to her.

Noboru Ikemoto, 75, was hanged in Osaka.
CASE: He was convicted of three murders and one attempted murder in a dispute with a neighbour over rubbish in 1985, the ministry said. He fatally shotgunned a distant 46-year-old relative and his spouse at the relative's house in June 1985 after having a heated debate with the couple over litter on his property. Ikemoto then went outside and shot a 71-year-old neighbor to death and wounded a bystander. His appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court in March 1996.


1 FEBUARY 2008:
Takashi Mochida, 65, was hanged in Tokyo.
CASE: Mochida was initially handed a seven-year prison term in 1989 for burglary and raping a 37-year-old woman in Tokyo. He returned to murder the victim in 1997 after serving his sentence, fatally stabbing her with a kitchen knife several times at a housing complex in Koto Ward.
The Tokyo District Court sentenced Mochida to life imprisonment, but the High Court overturned the sentence and condemned him. The Supreme Court upheld the ruling and his sentence was finalized in October 2004.

Keishi Nago, 37, was hanged in Fukuoka.
CASE: Nago was convicted of fatally stabbing his 40-year-old sister-in-law and his 17-year-old niece in August 2002 at their home in Isencho, Kagoshima Prefecture. His 13-year-old nephew sustained severe chest wounds and was hospitalized for 88 days.
The Kagoshima District Court sentenced Nago to death in 2004 and the sentence was finalized when he withdrew his high court appeal that year.

Masahiko Matsubara, 63, was executed in Osaka.
CASE: Matsubara was convicted of breaking into a home in Yamakawacho, Tokushima Prefecture in April 1988 and raping and murdering a 61-year-old housewife and stealing ¥28,000. He was also found guilty of raping and killing a 44-year-old housewife in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, two months later, and stealing ¥99,500. Matsubara had been convicted three times for robbery prior to the killings.The Supreme Court upheld the lower court rulings and finalized Matsubara's death sentence in April 1997. He had sought a retrial, but the request was rejected last October.

10 APRIL 2008:
Kaoru Okashita, 61, was executed in Tokyo.
CASE: He was convicted of killing 2 people nearly 20 years ago including an 82-year-old woman with whom he had a property dispute.

Okashita, who also went by the surname Akinaga, later wrote traditional tanka poetry from death row in which he expressed remorse over his crimes and reflected on life waiting to die.

Keiko Mitsumoto, 62, the head of a tanka club who edited and published Okashita's poetry, said she had just sent him back his latest proof-read verse a few days ago.

"He once told me he hoped to live until next year when our group's tanka anthology is published. But his wish wasn't realised," she told AFP, her voice breaking with emotion.

She said that Okashita each month sent her 10 tanka poems -- an ancient
form of Japanese verse with 31 syllables.

"His poetry was very, very gentle and even offered solace and encouragement to me. I could hardly believe he would commit murder," she said.

"He said he feared the day would suddenly come when the footsteps of a guard would stop in front of his cell to announce his execution," she recalled.

"He seemed prepared for that, though, along with not meeting those close to him for a final farewell."

Masahito Sakamoto, 41, was hanged in Tokyo.
CASE: He was convicted of raping and killing a high-school girl.

Katsuyoshi Nakamoto, 64, was hanged in Osaka.
CASE: He was convicted of killing a jeweller and his wife to steal the gems and cash.

Masaharu Nakamura, 61, was hanged in Osaka.
CASE: He was found to have killed two men by drugging their drinks.

17 JUNE 2008:
Tsutomu Miyazaki (宮﨑 勤 Miyazaki Tsutomu, August 21, 1962 – June 17, 2008), also known as The Otaku Murderer, The Little Girl Murderer, and Dracula, was a Japanese serial killer. He was executed by hanging in Tokyo.
CASE: Between 1988 and 1989, Miyazaki mutilated and killed four girls, aged between four and seven, and sexually molested their corpses. He drank the blood of one victim and ate her hands. These crimes — which, prior to Miyazaki's apprehension and trial were named "The Little Girl Murders", and later known as the Tokyo/Saitama Serial Kidnapping Murders of Little Girls (東京・埼玉連続幼女誘拐殺人事件 Tōkyō Saitama renzoku yōjo yūkai satsujin jiken) — shocked Saitama Prefecture, which had few crimes against children.
During the day, Miyazaki was a mild-mannered employee. Outside of work, he randomly selected children to kill. He terrorized the families of his victims, sending them letters recalling in graphic detail what he had done to their children. To the family of victim Erika Nanba, Miyazaki sent a morbid postcard assembled using words cut out of magazines: "Erika. Cold. Cough. Throat. Rest. Death."
He allowed the corpse of his first victim, Mari Konno, to decompose in the hills near his home, then chopped off the hands and feet, which he kept in his closet. They were recovered upon his arrest. He charred her remaining bones in his furnace, ground them into powder, and sent them to her family in a box, along with several of her teeth, photos of her clothes, and a postcard reading: "Mari. Cremated. Bones. Investigate. Prove."
Police found that the families of the victims had something else in common: all were bothered by silent nuisance phone calls. If they didn't pick up the phone, it would sometimes ring for 20 minutes.
On July 23, 1989, Miyazaki attempted to insert a zoom lens into the vagina of a grade school-aged girl in a park near her home and was attacked by the girl's grandfather. After fleeing naked on foot, Miyazaki eventually returned to the park to retrieve his Toyota car, whereupon he was promptly arrested by police who had responded to a call by the grandfather. A search of Miyazaki's two-room bungalow turned up a collection of 5,763 videotapes, some containing anime and slasher films (later used as reasoning for his crimes). Interspersed among them was video footage and pictures of his victims. He was also reported to be a fan of horror films and had an extensive collection, with the centerpieces being the first five Guinea Pig films; he reportedly used the fourth film in the series as a template for one of his killings. Miyazaki, who retained a perpetually calm and collected demeanor during his trial, appeared indifferent to his capture.

The media soon came to call him "The Otaku Murderer". His bizarre killings fueled a moral panic against otaku, accusing anime and horror films of making him a murderer. However these reports were disputed: in Eiji Otsuka's book on the crime, he argued that Miyazaki's collection of pornography was probably added or amended by a photographer in order to highlight his perversity. Another critic, Fumiya Ichihashi, suspected the released information was playing up to public stereotypes and fears about otaku, as the police knew they would help cement a conviction.

Miyazaki's father refused to pay for his son's legal defense, and eventually committed suicide in 1994.

The trial began on March 30, 1990. Often talking nonsensically, he blamed his atrocities on "Rat Man," an alter ego whom Miyazaki claimed forced him to kill; he spent a great deal of the trial drawing "Rat Man" in cartoon form. Believed to be insane, Miyazaki remained incarcerated throughout the 1990s while Saitama Prefecture put him through a battery of psychiatric evaluations. Teams of psychiatrists from Tokyo University diagnosed him as suffering from dissociative identity disorder (multiple personalities) or extreme schizophrenia. However, the Tokyo District Court judged him still aware of the gravity and consequences of his crimes and therefore accountable. He was sentenced to death on April 14, 1997. His death sentence was upheld by both the Tokyo High Court, on June 28, 2001, and the Supreme Court of Justice on January 17, 2006.

He described his serial murders as an "act of benevolence" and never apologized. Child killer Kaoru Kobayashi described himself as "the next Tsutomu Miyazaki or Mamoru Takuma." However, Miyazaki claimed that "I won't allow him to call himself 'the second Tsutomu Miyazaki' when he hasn't even undergone a psychiatric examination."

Kunio Hatoyama signed his death warrant and Miyazaki was hanged on June 17, 2008. Although the unusual swiftness of his execution as well as its timing soon after the Akihabara massacre prompted questions regarding the two incidents, the Ministry of Justice had no comment. Ryuzo Saki said, "His trial was long" and that he was "not willing to criticize Hatoyama."

Shinji Mutsuda, 37, was hanged in Tokyo.
CASE: He had been on death row for the murder and robbery of two people.

Yoshio Yamasaki, 73, was hanged in Osaka.
CASE: He was convicted of killing two people for the insurance money.

11 SEPTEMBER 2008:
Yoshiyuki Mantani, 68, was hanged in Osaka.
CASE: He was convicted of killing one woman, attempting to kill a second woman and robbing and wounding a third woman in Osaka from August 1987 to January 1988. He had been released from prison on April 30, 1987, after serving an earlier sentence for murder and robbery. His death sentence was finalized in December 2001.

Mineteru Yamamoto, 68, was hanged in Osaka.
CASE: He was convicted of murdering and robbing his cousin and the cousin's wife in July 2004 in Kobe because he wanted gambling money. He also conspired with another to commit three thefts in 2003. His sentence was finalized in April 2006.

Isamu Hirano, 61, was executed in Tokyo.
CASE: He was convicted of killing and robbing a ranch owner for whom he was working and the owner's wife in Tochigi Prefecture in December 1994. Hirano also torched the owner's house after the murder. His sentence was finalized in October 2006.

28 OCTOBER 2008:
Michitoshi KUMA, 70, was hanged in Fukuoka.
CASE: He was condemned to death in October 2006 by the Supreme Court. He was accused of murdering 2 young girls (both 7 years old) in February 1992. He claimed his innocence throughout the trial butcourts found him guilty based on the result of DNA test conducted by police, while the other result of the test by Teikyo University was negative. Kuma kidnapped two seven-year-old girls on their way to school in southern Japan in February 1992 and strangled them, dumping their bodies in the mountains.

Masahiro TAKASHIO, 55, was hanged in Sendai.
CASE: He was originally sentenced to life imprisonment by Iwaki Branch of Fukushima District Court.

But Sendai High Court overturned the decision and sentenced him to death. He withdrew his appeal to the Supreme Court and the sentence became final.

He is the 1st executed inmate who's original sentence was life imprisonment AND whose sentence was convicted without exhausting his right to appeal after executions were resumed in 1993. He was accused of murdering 83-year-old mother and her 55-year-old daughter and robbery of about 50,000 yen (approx. 500 US dollars). He broke into a house in northern Japan in March 2004 and stabbing a 55-year-old woman and her 83-year-old mother to death before stealing 50,000 yen, or about $500.

28 JANUARY 2009:
Yukinari Kawamura, 44 and 39-year-old Tetsuya Sato were both hanged in Nagoya.
CASE: They were both convicted of killing two women and burning their bodies in steel barrels.

Shoji Nishimoto, 32 was hanged in Tokyo.
CASE: He was convicted of killing four people in separate home invasion robberies.

Tadashi Makino, 58, was executed in Fukuoka.
CASE: He was convicted of killing four women in separate home invasion robberies.

28 JULY 2009:
Hiroshi Maeue (前上 博 Maeue Hiroshi, August 8, 1968 - July 28, 2009), aka "Suicide Website Murderer", was a Japanese serial killer, who lured his victims via the internet and killed three people in 2005. Maeue suffered from a paraphilic psychosexual disorder which translated into being unable to achieve sexual release absent of performing an act of strangulation.
CASE: Maeue murdered three people after his release in 2005; he was convicted of killing a 14-year-old boy, a 25-year-old woman, and a 21-year-old man, all of whom were members of an online suicide club. He lured his victims by suggesting they meet and end their lives together by committing suicide via a charcoal burner in a sealed car. After a brief conversation, however, he would strangle them with his bare hands. This brought him sexual pleasure, and he later claimed he developed his desire to kill this way after reading of similar events in a mystery novel as a child. All three of his victims were killed within a span of four months.
Trial and death
In his trial, prosecutors called Maeue a "lust murderer." On March 28, 2007, the Osaka District Court sentenced him to death. Although his defence team launched an appeal, he accepted the judgment of the court and expressed a willingness to pay for his crimes with his life, retracting his protest in July 5, 2007.
On July 28, 2009, Hiroshi Maeue was hanged in Osaka, along with 25-year-old condemned criminal Yukio Yamaji.

Yamaji Yukio (山地 悠紀夫 Yamaji Yukio, August 21, 1983 – July 28, 2009) was a Japanese triple killer. He murdered his own mother in 2000, and then murdered a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister in 2005.
CASE: Yamaji was born into a poor family and his father died of cirrhosis in January 1995. After he graduated from junior high school, he did not enter high school and began working at the newspaper store. He killed his 50-year-old mother with a metal baseball bat in Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture on July 29, 2000 at the age of 16. He called the police and was arrested on July 31. One of his motives was his mother's silent telephone to the woman who he fell in love with. Another motive was his mother's debt. He was paroled in October 2003 and was released officially in March 2004. However, his work after the release was illegal.
On November 17, 2005, Yamaji raped a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister and murdered them with a knife, in Naniwa, Osaka. He then set fire to their room and escaped. The two victims had never met Yamaji. He was arrested on December 5, 2005. He said to the Osaka police, "I could not forget the feeling when I killed my mother, and wanted to see human blood."
On December 13, 2006, the Osaka District Court sentenced him to death. His defense made an appeal but he retracted it on May 31, 2007. His execution by hanging took place in Osaka on July 28, 2009.

Chen Detong, 41, was hanged in Tokyo.
CASE: He was executed in Tokyo for killing three of his compatriots and injuring three more in Kawasaki, southwest of Tokyo, in 1999.

28 JULY 2010:
Kazuo Shinozawa, 59 was hanged in Tokyo.
CASE: He received a death sentence after he was found guilty of setting fire to a jewelry shop in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in June 2000. Shinzawa was taking part in a robbery which netted ¥140 million ($1.6 million). Six female workers from the jewelry shop died in the fire.


Hidenori Ogata, 33 was executed in Tokyo.
CASE: He was convicted of murder over the deaths of a man and a woman, and was also convicted of attempting to murder two other women in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, in 2003. He stabbed a man and woman to death in 2003.

Prison killers, maybe the #1 reason to keep the Death Penalty

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*On death row
**Executed
#Died or committed suicide on death row, had sentence reduced or commuted or had sentence overturned and is awaiting retrial
DPE: Earlier crimes were Death Penalty Eligible in most states

Alabama
Bobby Ray Gilbert: Murdered fellow inmate (DPE)
Cuhuatemoc Hinricky Peraita: Murdered fellow inmate* (DPE)

Alaska
Raymond Cheely: Ordered bombing murder from prison
Karl Able: Murdered fellow inmate

Arkansas
Alvin Jackson: Murdered prison guard* (DPE)
Kenneth Williams: Murdered after escape* (DPE)

Arizona
Dwight Eaglin: Murdered corrections officer and fellow inmate during escape attempt * (DPE)
Randy Greenawalt: Committed murders after escape** (DPE)
Jeffrey Landrigan(AZ/OK): Murdered after escape*
Viva Nash(AZ/UT): Murdered after escape* (DPE)
Robert Vickers: Murdered fellow inmates while serving life and later on death row. (DPE)**

California
Clarence Ray Allen: Ordered murders from prison ** (DPE)
Michael Thompson: Gang leader, committed and ordered inmate murders, ordered murder from prison
Ramon ‘Mundo’ Mendoza: Killed fellow inmates, ordered inmate killings, killed after parole (DPE)
Joe ‘Peg leg’ Morgan: Gang leader, ordered inmate killings, ordered street murders

Colorado
Edward Montour: Murdered prison guard* (DPE)

Connecticut
John Barletta: Murdered fellow inmate

Federal Bureau of Prisons
Shannon Agofsky(Fed/TX): Murdered fellow inmate* (DPE)
Anthony Battle(Fed/GA): Murdered prison guard* (DPE)
Tyler Bingham(Fed/CA, CO and PA): Gang leader, killed and ordered inmate killings (DPE)
Joseph Ebron: Murdered fellow inmate* (DPE)
Clayton Fountain(Fed/IL): Murdered fellow inmate and prison guard (DPE)
Edgar Hevle(Fed/CO): Gang leader, ordered inmate killings (DPE)
Byron Mills(Fed/GA, CO and PA): Gang leader, killed and ordered inmate killings (DPE)
Cleo Roy(Fed/IL)(first murdered as juvenile): Murdered fellow inmate (DPE)
Thomas Silverstein(Fed/IL and KS): Gang leader, killed and ordered inmate killings (DPE)

Florida
Benny Adams: Murdered fellow inmate** (DPE)
Andrew Busby: Murdered fellow inmate *
Donald Dillbeck(Committed first murder as juvenile): Murdered while working outside prison*
Edward Kennedy: Murdered after escape**
Thomas Knight: Murdered prison guard * (DPE)
Norman Parker: Committed multiple murders after escape*
Raoul Jesus Roque: Murdered fellow inmate * (DPE)

Georgia
Warren Hill: Murdered fellow inmate

Idaho
Thomas Creech: Murdered fellow inmate* (DPE)

Illinois
Henry Brisbon: Murdered fellow inmate # (DPE)
Victor Ganus: Murdered fellow inmate # (DPE)
Evan Griffith (first murders committed as a juvenile): Murdered fellow inmate # (DPE)

Indiana:
Jay R. Thompson(first killed as juvenile): Murdered fellow inmate# (DPE)

Kentucky:
Alex Bennett: Murdered fellow inmate (DPE)
William Thompson: Murdered Corrections Officer during escape* (DPE)

Maryland
Kevin G Johns: Murdered fellow inmates (DPE)

Missouri
Martsay Boulder: Murdered fellow inmate** (DPE)
Robert O’Neal: Murdered fellow inmate**
Samuel D. Smith: Murdered fellow inmate**
Michael D. Taylor(first murdered as juvenile): Murdered fellow inmate# (DPE)

Montana
William Gollehon: Murdered fellow inmate, murdered inmates during riot* (DPE)
Terry Langford: Murdered inmates during riot** (DPE)
Douglas Turner(first murdered as juvenile): Murdered fellow inmate, murdered inmates during riot# (DPE)

Nebraska
David Dunster(First murdered as juvenile): Murdered fellow inmates in Nebraska and Montana* (DPE)

Nevada
James Prestridge: Murdered fellow inmate after escape

New Mexico:
Reis Lopez(First murdered as juvenile): Murdered corrections officer

New York
Lemuel Smith: Murdered corrections officer (DPE)
Donald Nash: Murdered fellow inmate (DPE)

Ohio
William Bradley: Murdered corrections staff member # (DPE)
Clarence Carter: Murdered fellow inmate* (DPE)
Keith Lamar: Murdered inmates and corrections officer during riot* (DPE)
Jason Robb: Murders inmates and corrections officer during riot*
George Skatzes: Murders inmates and corrections officer during riot* (DPE)

South Carolina
Donald Gaskins: Murdered fellow inmate** (DPE)
Kenneth Justus: Murdered fellow inmate* (DPE)

Tennessee
Stephen Hugueley(first murdered as juvenile): Murdered fellow inmate and prison counselor* (DPE)
Cecil Johnson: Murdered fellow inmate on death row (DPE)*

Texas
Jarmarr Arnold: Murdered inmate on death row** (DPE)
Rogelio Cannady: Murdered inmate * (DPE)
Ignacio Cuevas: Murdered during escape/hostage taking** (DPE)
Joseph Garcia: Murdered after escape *
Robert Pruett (first murdered as juvenile): Murdered corrections officer * (DPE)
Michael Rodriguez: Murdered after escape** (DPE)
James Scott Porter: Murdered fellow inmate** (DPE)
Ramon Matta: Murdered corrections officer# (DPE)

Utah
Troy Kell (UT/NV): Gang leader, murdered fellow inmate* (DPE)

Virginia
Dawud Mu’Min: Committed murder while on work detail outside prison walls **
Joseph Payne: Murdered fellow inmate# (DPE)
Robert Gleason: Murdered fellow inmates

Wyoming
James Harlow: Murdered corrections officer# (DPE)

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Ricardo Ortiz (TX) killed a fellow inmate with a heorin overdose in retalliation.

Around three out of four inmates (I'll have to go back and check each source) on the list were convicted of first degree murder, felony murder, 'murder with malice aforethought' or capital felony along with a slew of lesser murder, manslaughter and sex crimes. They were serving sentences ranging from 15-to-life to LWOP. A few on the list (Landrigan, Knight, Arnold, Langford) committed their prison murders while on death row. Bennie Adams and William Bradley had already been on death row for prior murders when their sentences were reduced to life by the 1972 Furman v Georgia decision. They then reoffended while serving their reduced sentences.

I don't know that you're accurate about Landrigan. He escaped while being held for second degree murder, and assaulted another inmate at that time, going on to kill someone while escaped, but in several sources I found nothing at all about him murdering while on death row.

The other three I'll give you. I knew nothing about them. Interestingly though, the prosecutor who prosecuted numerous inmates for the 1991 riots that Langford is a part of, now advocates the abolition of the DP in Montana. He claims that post-riot, they made many improvements to the security of the prison.

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A current member of death row in South Dakota affected many lives by what he did.

This death row inmate stabbed to death a man pleading for his life and then chuckled about it during his confession. The young man was a 22 year old young man who had his whole life ahead of him. He obviously wasn't lazy but was hard-working and just happened to come to work, while the place he worked at was being robbed. So no one could say he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who knows what he might be today? The murderer is still on death row while the victim's family still waits to see if he'll even be executed. Because of this murderer's actions the doughnut shop eventually closed down because no one wanted to go in there anymore because of what happened. So he ruined the life of the business person who had given a job to a young person willing to work. I'm sure the owner, even though he wasn't related will live with the fact that someone was murdered in a business he owned and will probably always feel somehow responsible, even though it wasn't the owner's fault.

Now this current death row inmate isn't only trying to get off death row but he is trying to get his whole sentence overturned.
If anyone is vengeful it is this murderer and those who defend him.

Just think some people out there thinks this guy should be rehabilitated and put back in society.
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I'll note you begin in 1965 (unless there was any others listed prior to the first on your list). 1965 - 2008 = 43 years, 61 murders = 1.4 per year.

I'll also note that all but three of those in prison murders committed by murderers were committed in DP states (and fed), and discounting the 8 fed, leaving 53, 26 of the remaining (in prison) murders were committed in prisons in states that are the most active DP states.

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You can do anything you want to the prison. That will not change the inmates inside of it.

Go back and read the details of Ortiz's case in the scheduled execution pages. Then tell me how improving the prison would have changed the outcome. Finally, you can tell me how many inmates he killed after his execution..

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1. I'm not interested in what other people think of California

2. The most severe punishment isn't LWOP but the death penalty. As such it is condign retribution for the act being punished.

3. Your argument boils down to: (a) executions make me feel bad (b) my feelings are more important than those of the collective; therefore (c) capital punishment is wrong

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Kentucky:
Alex Bennett: Murdered fellow inmate

Indiana:
Jay R. Thompson(first killed as juvenile): Murdered fellow inmate

More info: Thompson's initial death sentence was overturned because he was 17 at the time he and another man murdered an elderly couple during a home invasion. Thompson received only 4 years for the prison murder. His accomplice Dillon McDonald has since been released.

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Kentucky
William Thompson: Murdered Corrections Officer during escape* (DPE)

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Texas:
Ramon Matta: Murdered corrections officer# (DPE)

More Info: Matta murdered CO Minnie Houston in 1984 after she rejected his sexual advances. He was already serving 30 years for a double murder. He was sentenced to death but his case dragged on until his death from natural causes in 2000. Houston had prevented the escape of two death row inmates the year before, capturing them at gun point at the prison's outer perimeter.

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New Mexico:
Reis Lopez(First murdered as juvenile): Murdered corrections officer

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Federal
Joseph Ebron: Murdered fellow inmate* (DPE)

Ok. Hypothetical scenario. A murder takes place and the only evidence found at the scene is the murderer's DNA. There aren't any other clues.

Now the DNA is tested but the person is an identical twin. Only one of them did it.

Now the DNA is only going to put both twins at the scence.

Its the job of the forensic investigators to find other clues to narrow the suspects down. i.e. catching the murderer on camera, a fingerprint, a strong alibi and even a strong motive.

It should also be noted that DNA does not necessarily say that this person 100% did it. It just narrows it down so that it is a very low chance that someone else comitted the crime.

Take Roger Coleman for example. When they had his DNA retested his percentage rate for him to have done it was in the high 90's..I believe it was something like 98.9999 percent not a perfect 100. But it is safe to say that he did it.

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Yup....prison murder is a fine reason for the death penalty.

Another (of the many) reason to be pro-dp....is to encourage murderers to confess, to avoid the "wardens cocktail"...

My favorite though is the most undeniable reason of all...

"no executed murder EVER killed again....in, or out of prison!"

Arizonavet



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New York:
Donald Nash: Murdered fellow inmate (DPE)

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Tennessee
Cecil Johnson: Murdered fellow inmate on death row (DPE)*

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Victor Ganus, illinios. Murdered another inmate while serving LWOP for murder.

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Georgia:
Warren Lee Hill, murdered fellow inmate

Hill killed inmate Joseph Handspike with a board embedded with nails in 1990. Hill was serving life for a 1985 murder.

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Amrozi bin Nurhasyim the Smiling Assassin

Ali Amrozi bin Haji Nurhasyim (also known as Amrozi) (5 July 1962 – 9 November 2008) was an Indonesian executed for his part in the 2002 Bali bombings.
He was a native of Lamongan, East Java and was the fifth of 13 children. He attended the Al-Mukmin Islamic school founded by Abu Bakar Bashir along with his brothers Mukhlas and Ali Imron. Amrozi was born in Tenggulun, East Java in 1962. His family were strictly religious, following the Wahhabist school of Islam which has its roots in Saudi Arabia. Amrozis' grandfather established the first pesantren or Islamic boarding school in Tenggulun. His father Nur Hasyim taught his sons that Javanese customs were considered heresy under Islamic law and were therefore to be eradicated. Nur Hasyim was involved in the Indonesian independence struggle against the Dutch, often regailing his sons with tales of heroism by his fellow Muslims. Amrozi displayed little interest in school or religious studies. Police psychiatric reports undertaken after the Bali bombings describe him as "simple" and "shallow" and report that he was easily influenced by others. They describe him as having an immature personality and lower than normal intellectual capacity. Amrozis' brother, Ali Imron, reported that Amrozi was continually in trouble at school and at home, being banned and expelled by teachers and stealing items from his own home and selling them. He only made it to the second year of high school. At the age of 23 Amrozi married for the first time. He married a local girl. The marriage lasted only two years, producing a daughter. He attempted high school again but dropped out soon after. Seemingly without purpose and lacking direction he began vandalising Javanese graves in his village in an apparent attempt to gain approval from his strictly religious and respected father. He mortified his parents by desecrating the grave of a respected village elder, subsequently spending a week in police custody. Amrozis'elder brother Muklas was a respected member of a pesantren in Malaysia. Amrozi had not seen him for over ten years. He had been a stabilising influence to some degree in Amrozis' early adult years. Amrozi decided to visit Muklas but was initially shunned and rejected because of his errant ways. He was devastated by this and realised that to become accepted he needed to become a good Muslim. Amrozi ceased smoking and watching movies. He began praying five times a day in his efforts to gain the acceptance of Muklas. Muklas finally agreed to let him stay. Amrozi was talented with his hands and became the local repairman, fixing cars and mobile phones. By trade he became a mechanic and owned the van used in the Sari Club bombing. It was Amrozi who purchased the explosives.

2002 Bali bombing and trial
His two brothers Ali Ghufron (aka Mukhlas) and Ali Imron were also both involved in the 2002 Bali bombings. Mukhlas is suspected of converting Amrozi to militancy when the two were reunited in Malaysia in the late 1980s. Both of his brothers were also taken into police custody, and Mukhlas was executed with him.
Amrozi was allegedly motivated by his view of American foreign policy, which he deemed to have an imperialist agenda toward the Islamic world.
In an interview with the chief of investigations, General I Made Mangku Pastika, when asked about Amrozi's feelings toward the attack said:
“ "There is no regret at all for him [Amrozi]. Doing his duty to God, he shows no regret. He's very calm, very cool... proud of his activities." About the fact that most of the Westerners who died were Australians rather than the Americans that Amrozi has stated he was targeting, Mr Pastika stated, "He doesn't regret it but he is just unhappy" ”
Amrozi's seemingly nonchalant demeanour throughout his trial earned him nicknames such as "The Smiling Assassin", "The Smiling Bomber" and "The Laughing Bomber".
At the time of the bombing Bali was more popular as a tourist destination for Australians than it was for Americans.
Sentence and execution
On 7 August 2003, he was found guilty for his role in the Bali bombing and sentenced to death by firing squad. His execution was delayed for 5 years, due to legal technicalities: the law under which he was convicted was not in effect at the time of the bombing, and was ruled illegal by the Indonesian high court in July 2004. Originally incarcerated in Denpasar's prison, he was moved to the high-security prison island of Nusakambangan in October 2005. While in prison, on 12 May 2008, he re-married his first wife, Rahma, in a ceremony which was conducted in his absence in his home village, while remaining married to his current wife.
Together with the two other bombers (Imam Samudra and his brother, Mukhlas) who received death sentences, he launched a constitutional challenge against the use of firing squads. Amrozi preferred beheading. In October 2008 he remained unrepentant and claimed revenge would be taken for his death.
During the month, his final appeals were rejected and the Attorney General's office announced that he would be executed by firing squad in early November 2008. According to a source in Indonesia's Attorney General Office, the executions were to be done before the end of Sunday, 9 November 2008. This was reportedly delayed from the original plan to allow a representative from the family to identify the body post-execution. From Amrozi's family, his younger brother, Ali Fauzi was sent as a representative of his family.
Amrozi, along with Imam Samudra and Huda bin Abdul Haq were shot on 00.15 local time on 9 November 2008. They were executed by firing squad. Despite his carefree demeanor throughout his trial and incarceration, he was reported to have been pale faced and shaking in the moments before his execution.
Just take a look at the case of one of the terrorists involved in the 2002 Bali Bombings, Amrozi A.K.A The Smiling Assassin:

12 October 2002 = Two bombs explode in the Kuta tourist strip on the Indonesian island of Bali. One hits Paddy's Irish Bar, and the second explodes in a van outside the nearby Sari club. A total of 202 people die as a result. A third bomb explodes near Bali's US consulate, but no one is hurt.

7 November 2002 = Indonesian police arrest the first suspect for the Bali bomb blasts, a mechanic called Amrozi bin Nurhasyim. Under questioning, he admits to playing a role in the attacks.

12 May 2003 = Amrozi goes on trial, charged with helping plan the attacks, as well as with buying the explosives and owning the van used in the bombings.

11 June 2003 = Appearing at Amrozi's trial, one of the Bali Bombers, Imam Samudra denies playing a direct role in the attacks, but says he could be "morally responsible".

30 June 2003 = Police catch another key Bali suspect, Idris - who is alleged to have organized accommodation and financed the attack. Prosecutors also announce that they are seeking the death penalty against Amrozi.

14 July 2003 = Amrozi tells the court that the attack had "positive aspects", because it encouraged people to re-embrace religion and weakened the corrupting influence of foreign tourists.

7 August 2003 = Amrozi is found guilty of helping plan and carry out the attacks. He is sentenced to death.

25 September 2003 = Lawyers for Amrozi lodge appeal against his death sentence, in a process expected to take years to resolve.

7 January 2004 = The Supreme Court rejects Amrozi's appeal. His lawyers say they will now file a judicial review, a process which could take months.

20 October 2005 = Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra will not seek presidential pardons, prosecutors say, and are "ready to be executed anytime soon".

21 August 2006 = The executions of Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra are postponed after they authorize their lawyers to file a last appeal.

7 December 2006 = Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra launch a last-ditch appeal against the death sentences. Their lawyers say they plan to argue that the men were found guilty on the basis of retroactive legislation.

25 September 2007 = Indonesia's Supreme Court rejects the final appeals of Imam Samudra and Mukhlas. A court official says the men had provided no new evidence to challenge earlier verdicts. An appeal by Amrozi was rejected earlier in September.

6 August 2008 = Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra appeal against their death sentences at Indonesia's constitutional court. Their lawyers say shooting does not guarantee instant death and can thus be deemed torture. They say the men should die by beheading or lethal injection.

21 October 2008 = Indonesia's constitutional court rejects an attempt by Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra to change the method of their execution.

24 October 2008 = The Indonesian attorney-general's office says Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra will be executed in early November.

3 November 2008 = Lawyers for Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra file a new appeal, saying they had not been properly informed of the Supreme Court's rejection of an earlier appeal.

8 November 2008 = Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra are executed by firing squad on the island prison of Nusakambangan.

Bali bomber and smiling assassin Amrozi died a coward

Cindy Wockner in Cilicap

November 10, 2008 05:38am

AMROZI, the smiling assassin, was not so brave when faced with his own death. His older brother Mukhlas was more defiant and praised God to the end.

And when the time came to be shackled hand and foot and led from their jail cells to the execution ground, the three Bali bombers accepted their fate without struggle.

Sources inside Batu prison and involved in the execution of Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Mukhlas, aka Ali Ghufron, and Imam Samudra, aka Abdul Aziz, yesterday revealed details of how the trio were put to death six years after their crimes.

One source said that of the three, Amrozi was the least brave and that as his end neared he looked "pale" and afraid.

He was also the quickest to die after all three were strapped to wooden posts and shot at the same time by firing squads.

His older brother Mukhlas was more defiant, repeatedly shouting "Allah Akbar" until his last moments. One source said that even as he was dying he praised God.

It was Amrozi who earned the contempt of Australians and the world when, after his arrest, he smiled for the cameras and took pride in the devastation caused.

When he was sentenced to death, he cheered and gave the thumbs up to judges, then to his victims' families.

The three men had known death was stalking them and, according to jail sources, seemed resigned to their fate.

At 11pm on Saturday, about 30 members of the paramilitary Brimob police, wearing balaclavas to hide their identity, went to the cells of the three men.

The three were shackled hand and feet, chains running from wrist to the ankle.

"They looked like they accepted their fate. They didn't struggle," one witness said.

As they were lead from their cells, their ankles were bound so tightly they had to shuffle.

The rest of the jail was quiet except for the bombers' exhortations of "Allah Akbar".

Other prisoners didn't join in. Several days earlier the bombers had said their goodbyes to prisoners and guards and asked for the traditional Muslim forgiveness.

"They were shouting but it was not really loud. The situation was quite calm. Not all three of them were shouting (Allah Akbar) at once. It was separately, one then the other," another source said.

The bombers had been praying all afternoon and when the officers came to collect them, Amrozi said he knew it was time. They had also been fasting.

They were taken out to waiting double-cab pick-up trucks. Each man was put in the second row of seats, in the middle and flanked by armed police on either side.

More police sat in the back of the truck.

The cars then drove off in procession to the execution zone of Nirbaya, about 3km south of the jail.

Amrozi was in the first car, followed by Imam Samudra in the second car and then Mukhlas.

It took longer than anticipated to reach the site because a torrential downpour earlier in the evening had made the narrow and windy track slippery and difficult to negotiate.

When they arrived at Nirbaya, the bombers were taken from the trucks and tied to posts. They were ministered to by three Muslim preachers who read to them from the Koran.

It is believed that Amrozi was tied to the middle post with Samudra to his left and Mukhlas to his right and that the men were standing up.

The Bali prosecutor, Ida Bagus Wiswantanu, proceeded to read out the execution order, detailing the men's crimes and their sentences.

Black hoods were put over their heads and at 12.15am the signal to shoot was given.

It was a dark night, the moon shrouded in cloud and there were no stars.

But the air was crisp and clean after the earlier monsoonal rain.

At 12.20am the doctor pronounced them dead and at 12.25am the three bodies were untied and taken to a nearby jail clinic for an autopsy.

Afterwards they were washed in the Muslim tradition by Ali Fauzi, the brother of Amrozi and Mukhlas, and the Muslim clerics.

At dawn the men's bodies were flown in police helicopters to their home villages in East and West Java for burial.

Clashes with police

Hundreds of emotional supporters of the Bali bombers clashed with police in Tenggulun yesterday as the bodies of two of them arrived at their home village.

Heavily armed police could not control the 500-strong crowd which surged around the ambulances carrying the bodies following their execution yesterday.

Clashes broke out and the police were driven off the road amid shouts of “Jihad!” and “Get out!”

There were similar scenes in the west Java town of Serang as Imam Samudra's body was paraded through the streets between his local mosque and graveyard, shrouded in a black cloth bearing a Koranic inscription in Arabic.

Members of a radical group headed by hardline cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the co-founder of Jemaah Islamiah, who was jailed on a conspiracy charge related to the bombings before being released, pushed people aside to make way for the body.

Westerners in both villages were verbally abused as "infidels" and told to leave.

The three Bali bombers were executed on an Indonesian island for their lead roles in the 2002 nightclub bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.

Earlier, the family of Mukhlas and his younger brother Amrozi said the bombers had been executed along with Imam Samudra just after midnight local time (4am AEDT) on Nusakambangan Island, in Central Java, where they had been jailed.

“Our family has received news of the execution ... May our brothers, God willing, be invited by green birds to heaven now,” Mohammad Chozin, a brother of Mukhlas and Amrozi, said in Tenggulun.

“We're now handling the preparations to bring the bodies back, which may take two hours,” he said outside an Islamic boarding school in the east Java village, as supporters shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greater).

Indonesia's Attorney General's Office yesterday morning confirmed the executions had taken place.

“At 12.15am, the convicts ... were executed by shooting and followed up with an autopsy,” spokesman Jasman Pandjaitan said.

“They have been stated as dead. At this moment the bodies are being washed by the family.”

The bombers were simultaneously shot through the heart by crack Indonesian troops assembled to carry out the task.

They were executed in an orchard some 6km from their prison on Nusakambangan Island, Indonesia's TV One reported.

A source at the prison said they shouted “Allahu Akbar” as they were escorted out of their isolation cells by paramilitary police shortly before their executions.

Australians expressed relief that the men were finally dead, six years after they brought carnage to Bali by sending suicide bombers to attack the Sari Club and nearby Paddy's Bar on October 12, 2002.

“... we've waited a very long time for this and this is our justice,” Sydney woman Maria Kotronakis, who lost two sisters and two cousins, told CNN, struggling at times to speak.

“Finally the moment has come ... we are over the moon.”

Survivor Peter Hughes, of Perth, who suffered horrific burns in the bombings, said the three militants had paid the highest price for mass murder, but their executions did not bring him any joy.

“These guys went to set about mass murder and paid the highest penalty,” he told CNN.

“It doesn't feel good but they did do the crime and they've paid for it.”

The bombers' bodies will soon be flown by helicopter to their home villages for burial within 24 hours, in accordance with Muslim custom.

In Tenggulun, sobbing mourners converged on the home of Amrozi and Mukhlas' mother.

Hardline cleric Abu Bakar Bashir – the co-founder of Jemaah Islamiah, the group blamed for the Bali bombings – praised the bombers as “holy warriors” during a visit to the village on Saturday.

Security forces are on high alert across the mainly Muslim country, after the bombers urged supporters to carry out revenge attacks if their executions went ahead.

Australian authorities have advised Australians to reconsider the need to travel to Indonesia.

The 2002 Bali attacks were the bloodiest in a sustained period of al-Qaeda-inspired jihadist violence in the world's most populous Muslim country.

Additional reporting by Komang Suriadi and Gita Anggun Athika

The Whip & The Sword are mightier than The Cage.

In many countries, the crime rate is increasing.
Why do you think this is happening? What can governments do to help reduce the crime rate?

In a small country like Singapore, the crime rate is very low, because her government introduced both capital and corporal punishment. However, in a European country, such as the United Kingdom, the crime rate has increased since 1964. Something must be done about the increase crime rate and I will like to explain on how it will solve the problem.

Many countries today do not have strict laws and that is why it is easy for criminals to commit any crime they want. In some countries, for example, a rapist gets a five-year jail sentence, unlike in the past when rapists either got executed or sentenced to at least thirty years' imprisonment. The laws in these countries do not impose tougher and severe punishment for these criminals, when these convicts are released from prison, they may go back to their old habits again.

Most governments should reinstate capital punishment to decrease the amount of murders. After the United Kingdom abolished capital punishment in 1964, many of her citizens began to realize that the number of murders in their country had increased. They even wrote letters of complaint to their government, asking for capital punishment to be reinstated. Capital punishment is an effective way of removing these evil criminals from society and it saves a lot of lives.

In Singapore, the government uses corporal punishment such as caning as a deterrent, in order to decrease the amount of crime in the country. There was a time when there was an increase in the number of illegal immigrants who were arrested in Singapore. When they were interviewed by journalists, the illegal immigrants explained that they did not mind being imprisoned because they got free food and accommodation. The Singaporean government imposed a new law, stating that they would cane the next illegal immigrant who entered the country. Thus, the amount of illegal immigrants fell.

In order to prevent the crime rate from increasing, the government should impose strict laws and not to be too lenient to criminals. Both capital and corporal punishment are the best options to reduce crime because they are a necessary punishment to eliminate and frighten these criminals respectively.

Do you think that the death penalty is a better punishment than life imprisonment?

Many western countries have abolished the death penalty and only have life imprisonment for serious crimes. However, some people in these countries have been calling for it to be reinstated again. The death penalty should be reinstated again because people feel that it is a good punishment. I agree with this statement and I would like to state my reasons.

Life imprisonment is a waste of money for the government. If a large number of convicts were to be sentenced to life imprisonment, the government would have to spend more money building prisons and buying food. It is not worth wasting money on these people who had harmed society, it is much better to spend it on helping the poor and disabled people.

Life imprisonment is not a good solution for criminals who have committed serious crimes. It is a waste of time for convicts because they either spend decades in prison or will be caged until the day they die. Even if they finish their sentences, it will be hard for them to get a job and be accepted back into society. For example, some convicts chose to be executed instead of being sentence to life imprisonment, stating that being in jail forever is as good as being dead. Some convicts have the mentality that prison is like a home to them, where all they can do everyday is to eat and sleep. If they were to be released from prison, they would go back to their old habits again.

The death penalty is also a good deterrent because it gives a serious warning to the public in order to prevent them from committing more crimes. A murderer has to pay with his life and this will make people think twice before committing serious crimes. For example, in Russia, murderers and drug traffickers will get life imprisonment but people who commit terrorist acts and assassination of government officials will be executed. The Russian government uses the death penalty to issue a warning in order to prevent terrorisms from spreading across the country.

It is because that life imprisonment is a waste of money and not a good solution and that the death penalty is a good deterrent, I feel that the death penalty is a necessary punishment and it should be reinstated again.

Discuss when, if ever, capital punishment can be viewed as a valid punishment for crime.

To many people, capital punishment is abhorrent, but it is possible to view it as a valid means of punishment. In my opinion, it can be justified as a penalty when three conditions are present. In this essay, I intend to discuss these three issues in more depth.

The rules of society are made and enforced for the purpose of protecting its members. In cases where the murder that has been committed is so frightful that society cannot allow the perpetrator back into its fold, then the death penalty may be the only answer. For example, crimes against humanity such as genocide; terrorist attacks which have resulted in many lives lost.

If the offender shows no remorse at all and is incapable of feeling any shame for his terrible actions, the only solution may be death. In these cases, it is clear that the offender cannot be rehabilitated.

Another important consideration is to ensure to the best of everyone‟s ability that the accused is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. If someone is punished with imprisonment, and later found to be innocent, he can be released from prison. However, when the punishment is death, it is impossible to make amends. There have been a number of examples in history where a man was found to be innocent after being hanged.

In conclusion, I believe that it is important to consider three main issues. The crime must be so bad that it would be impossible to welcome the perpetrator back into society. There must be no hope that the perpetrator can ever be rehabilitated back into society. There must be no doubt as to the perpetrator‟s guilt. In any situation that does not contain these components, I believe it is morally wrong to impose the death penalty.

Firing squad in Indonesia

They will be handcuffed to prison officers and led to a van. The van will drive from the prison, through the local streets, and about five miles through the jungle to an isolated beach. Indonesia's 1964 "Penetapan Presiden No. 2" death-penalty regulations, still the current ones, state: "Once arriving at the place of their death, the condemned is blindfolded (although they can choose not to be) (s.11(4))." A white apron will be draped over each of them, with a round red target over the heart. It is generally thought that their hands will be tied or handcuffed behind their backs to a pole, although the regulations tell us, "The condemned is given the freedom to choose how they will die - standing, sitting or lying (s.12(1))": surely the saddest final life choice imaginable. There will be 20 soldiers, members of the Indonesian Mobile Brigade, who will have passed "appropriate psychological tests" - ten soldiers for Amrozi, ten for Muklhas - and for each lot of ten rifles, two live bullets and eight blanks. The state delivers justice, or retribution, in executing its wrongdoers, but the blanks say something about an instinctive human resistance to the killing of a defenceless person. They allow, however flimsily, for a collective sense among the firing squad members of diffusion of responsibility. An experienced marksman can tell the difference between a blank and a live bullet, due to the strength of the recoil; nonetheless, the loophole of the blank cartridge has long been a tradition of the firing squad. In any case, the young men's hearts will burst. Death will be massively traumatic, though there is some debate about just how swift. But "Penetapan Presiden No. 2" has the contingencies covered. "If after the shooting, the condemned still shows signs they are not yet dead, the Commander immediately gives the order to the head of the firing squad to let off a tembakan pengakhir (finishing shot) by pressing the barrel of the gun against the temple of the condemned, right above their ear (s.14(4))."