Genzo Kurita
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| Genzo Kurita | |
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| Birth name: | Genzo Kurita |
| Born: | November 3, 1926 Akita, Japan |
| Died: | October 14, 1959 (aged 32) |
| Cause of death: | hanging |
| Penalty: | Death |
| Killings | |
| Number of victims: | 8 |
| Span of killings: | February 1948 through January 13, 1952 |
| Country: | Japan |
| State(s): | Chiba, Tochigi, Shizuoka |
| Date apprehended: | January 16, 1952 |
Genzo Kurita (栗田 源蔵 Genzo Kurita?, November 3, 1926 - October 14, 1959) was a Japanese serial killer, who murdered eight people.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ 第024回国会 法務委員会公聴会 第2号 (Japanese). National Diet Library (1956-05-10). Retrieved on 2008-01-09.
