April 29, 1975 - Yoshitomo Hori
His criminal record spans nearly a decade of separate violent episodes — a double homicide, an attempted murder, and participation in another killing — each addressed through distinct legal proceedings that ultimately resulted in a death sentence. What makes his case notable in the context of Japanese criminal history is the pattern of recurring violence across multiple years and the delayed legal reckoning that followed as earlier crimes were connected to him only later.
From Wikipedia
Yoshitomo Hori (Japanese: 堀 慶末; né Kim; born April 29, 1975) is a Korean-Japanese serial killer who killed a couple in Hekinan in 1998, and later participated in the murder of Rie Isogai in 2007. Sentenced to life imprisonment for the latter crime, he was linked to the double murder and another attempted murder in 2012, for which he was sentenced to death and currently awaits execution on death row.
Further reading on Amazon:
- Japanese Death Row
- Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Solitary and the Japanese Prison System
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