Abe shooter spends time reading; awaits unscheduled trial

Does he have a library at his disposal? And what ever happened to the moonies cult in Japan?

Waiting that long for a trial is an injustice. There is no need to "narrow down issues, review evidence and set the trial schedule". Set the date. Get it done.

He just want to show unification church and Japanese politics to the public, he accomplished that. Now he has plenty of time for reading.

Tetsuya Yamagami knows what's at the end of his journey through life: a real short walk followed by a long drop at the end of a rope.

Read all you want! Enjoy the wait. You're life is done.

J- justice sucks!

A year passed and still no trial date.

Maybe it's time Japan dropped the death penalty? This guy can just keep reading for the rest of his life as far as I'm concerned.

A trial would expose a lot of very inconvenient and/or damaging details about the Moonies and their corrupt involvement with the LDP.

So it may be years till any trial comes up, if ever, since they are probably hoping to Epstein the guy.

Will he really get the death sentence? I thought that death sentences were only given for either multiple-murders or for murders in connection with a robbery. One single murder, even a so-called assassination, should not be sufficient for a first-offender.

There have been death penalties for a single murder.

There have been death penalties for a single murder.

Not strictly true.

Since 1955 in Japan capital punishment has been handed down in 0.2 percent of murder trials.

In less than a third of these cases there was only one victim, but all were

a) not the offender’s first murder (offender had been released on parole or served full sentence for a previous murder), and

b) cases of not simple homicide but aggravated homicide (usually involving torture).

(see Japan Legal Training and Research Institute website)

TT

It is an utter disgrace that there is no trail date a year after his arrest. How primative. Is he being held in solitary? Japan's constitution and Criminal Code of Practice forbids solitary confinement of any prisoner for more than six months.

Will he really get the death sentence? I thought that death sentences were only given for either multiple-murders or for murders in connection with a robbery. One single murder, even a so-called assassination, should not be sufficient for a first-offender.

Probably not. Thomas Twatt laid down the reasons pretty well. And for precedent, when the mayor of Nagasaki was shot and killed, the killer did not receive a death sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iccho_Itoh

Everybody knows some are more equal than others so Yamagami will be executed ( a sanctified word for "murdered" by "the State").

Thiswas what I meant how Japan glorifies these types of criminals which opens doors for copycats! What the wrong people would take away from this case would be that you can commit a crime and just carry on in prison with great stastus in the eyes of the media! No one talks about what changes the Abe family have been through, how they dealt with the passing of their loved one. The media goes into the upbringing of this fella, his school life, family life, how he made his device, where he bought it,what he used, what he does leisurely in prison (sounds like a lush life with no real consequences to me) and all this other media attention so others would see this and think "I want that! I want that celebrity status!"

Come on, Japan!