Genzo Kurita

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=Death
nihongo|Genzo Kurita|栗田 源蔵|"Genzo Kurita"|extra=November 3, 1926 - October 14, 1959 was a Japanese serial killer, who murdered eight people.

Murders

Kurita killed two girlfriends in February 1948. On August 8, 1951, he raped and murdered a 24-year-old woman beside her baby. He then committed necrophilia 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 his fingerprint.

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 on December 21, 1953. He appealed the sentences, but because of mental instability he retracted his appeals on October 21, 1954. He was considered to be neurotic 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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