Japan has executed a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in a Tokyo shopping district in 2008.
FILE - Shoes of victims are left on a street as rescuers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department work in Tokyo's Akihabara district after a man rammed a truck into a crowd of shoppers, jumped out and went on a stabbing spree in Tokyo's top electronics district on June 8, 2008. Japan on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 executed a man convicted of killing seven in the 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district, the justice minister announced.
Japan has maintained the death penalty despite growing international criticism. Furukawa said capital punishment was a justified response to continuing heinous and violent crime and scrapping it wasn't appropriate at this point. In the attack, Kato drove down his truck on a street in the Akihabara electronics shopping area, slamming into a crowd of people and killing three pedestrians in June 2008. He then got out of the vehicle and stabbed four people to death. He injured or wounded 10 others.Surveillance footage aired by national broadcaster NHK afterward showed Kato buying hunting knives two days before the attack, laughing with a store worker and at times making stabbing motions with his hands.
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