24 years in prison for murder: Is it enough?
June 22nd, 2008 by James
In November 2007, a man was shot to death in his room at a hospital in Kyushu because the gangster who stormed into the hospital mistook him for somebody else. The gangster has been tried and sentenced to 24 years in prison for the crime, but prosecutors are not satisfied:
Prosecutors have appealed a 24-year prison term handed down to a yakuza for fatally shooting a hospital inpatient he mistook for a rival gangster, saying the sentence is too light.
The Saga District Public Prosecutors Office has demanded that the defendant spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Should the gangster have been given a tougher sentence?
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So why is the prosecution seeking literal life in prison and not execution in this case?
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It could be enough or too few, but it depends in the situation, the responsible’s background and other things than can’t be covered in a single blog post.
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He was a member of the yakuza, hardly an upstanding citizen and makes it likely that he would be doing similar or worse acts in the future. Give him life.
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Doing an appeal may force the yaks to spend more money on lawyers? Or have they hung this guy out to dry with public defenders?
Randomly killing someone is quite possibly one the least forgivable forms of murder. I mean, if he had actually killed the right guy, it would have been keeping things ‘inside’ the yak world. Thus no danger to public safety in general.
The yaks going around shooting outsiders IS a threat to public safety, and the guy needs to be made an example of. He should get the death sentence. Make all the yaks think twice before gunning someone down.
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Eye for an eye.
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That should have been a death or life sentence… I hope the prosecutors win their point.
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The yakuza who killed the wrong person in the hospital should get another 24years in prison for just being stupid.
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