- Genzo Kurita
Infobox Serial Killer
name= Genzo Kurita
caption=
birthname= Genzo Kurita
alias=
birth=birth date|1926|11|03
location=Akita,Japan
death=death date and age|1959|10|14|1926|11|03
cause=hanging
victims=8
country=Japan
states=Chiba, Tochigi, Shizuoka
beginyear=February 1948
endyear=January 13 , 1952
apprehended=January 16 , 1952
penalty=Deathnihongo|Genzo Kurita|栗田 源蔵|"Genzo Kurita"|extra=November 3 ,1926 -October 14 ,1959 was a Japaneseserial killer , who murdered eight people.Murders
Kurita killed two girlfriends in February 1948. On
August 8 ,1951 , herape d and murdered a 24-year-old woman beside her baby. He then committednecrophilia with her corpse.On
October 11 ,1951 , he raped and murdered a 29-year-old woman. He threw her, her five-year-old son, her seven-year-old daughter and her two-year-old daughter from the cliff called "Osen Korogashi". Her seven-year-old daughter survived, but her two other children died.Kurita killed a 63-year-old woman and her 24-year-old niece on
January 13 ,1952 . After the murders, he had sex with the niece's dead body. The police found hisfingerprint .Arrest, trial, and execution
Kurita was arrested in
January 16 ,1952 .On
August 12 ,1952 , the district court in Chiba sentenced him to death for the last two murders. The district court in Utsunomiya sentenced him to death for six others onDecember 21 ,1953 . Heappeal ed the sentences, but because of mental instability he retracted his appeals onOctober 21 ,1954 . He was considered to beneurotic and a danger to himself. He was executed on October 14, 1959.Aftermath
On
May 10 ,1956 , a pro-death penalty prosecutor in Supreme Public Prosecutors Office introduced Kurita into a debate about capital punishment in the Diet. [cite web | author= | title=第024回国会 法務委員会公聴会 第2号 | publisher=National Diet Library | language=Japanese | url=http://kokkai.ndl.go.jp/SENTAKU/sangiin/024/0640/02405100640002c.html | date=1956-05-10 | accessdate=2008-01-09]See also
*
Yoshio Kodaira
*Capital punishment debate References
External links
*ja icon [http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/knight9/osenkorogasi.htm Article on the serial murders]
* [http://www.japanican.com/japaninfo/Detail.aspx?BookID=23231880&category=S The photograph of now Osenkorogashi cliff]
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