Yukio Yamaji Video

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4 secondsDo you think that someone guilty of one of the worst crimes imaginable can be rehabilitated? If so, how can you really know for sure if they’ve actually

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13 secondschanged? And what happens if you’re wrong?

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22 secondsYukio Yamaji was a very troubled boy born into a poor struggling family on August 21st, 1983.

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30 secondsWhen he was very young, both his mother and father worked to support the family.

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35 secondsHowever, his father was quite the drinker and he died from cerosis when Yukio was in elementary school, only 11 years old.

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44 secondsThis hit both Yu-Gi-Oh and his mother very hard. With his mother working as only a store clerk and having to support both herself and her son, it’s safe to say the family was not doing very well.

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56 secondsYukio was also not an exceptional student. He was very often absent, not going into school in the first place.

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1 minute, 4 secondsBut when he did go, he often stuck to himself, talking very seldom. He had a lot of trouble interacting with the

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1 minute, 11 secondsfemale students, especially sometimes he would even lash out violently. Fellow students vividly remembered him smashing a window at school during class.

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1 minute, 21 secondsBy the time Yukio was in middle school, his mother was already in heavy debt.

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1 minute, 26 secondsThey often struggled to buy even the cheapest food they could find. Once Yukio graduated middle school, he made the choice not to move on to high

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1 minute, 33 secondsschool, with high school not being mandatory in Japan. Instead, he began working at a small local newspaper shop.

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1 minute, 42 secondsYukio would later go on to describe his life up until this point as exactly like hell. For his job, Yukio was regularly delivering newspapers all over town.

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1 minute, 53 secondsWhile on one of his outings, he met and began seeing a much older woman. Granted, this woman was only in her 20s,

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1 minute, 59 secondsbut Yukio himself was only 16 at the time. Over time, their relationship became physical. However, after thinking

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2 minutes, 8 secondson it for a while, the older woman decided that she wasn’t very comfortable with their age gap and broke it off with him. But Yukio didn’t give up. He kept pursuing her. His mother, however,

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2 minutes, 20 secondsstrongly opposed the relationship. She began calling the woman, but just remaining silent on the line, not saying

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2 minutes, 29 secondsanything in that sort of cliche creepy sort of way. Despite no words being

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2 minutes, 36 secondsexchanged, this was enough to enrage Yu-Gi-Oh.

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2 minutes, 40 secondsYukio decided that his mother’s life needed to end.

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2 minutes, 45 secondsOn July 29th of 2000, when he was still just 16 years old, Yukio grabbed an aluminum bat and set out to exact his revenge.

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2 minutes, 55 secondsHe used the bat to break some glass in the room, shattering it all over the floor and terrifying his mother. Then with a quick swing, he hit her over the

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3 minutes, 4 secondshead. She walked all over all of the broken glass, trying to steady herself,

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3 minutes, 8 secondsdazed after taking the blow. Even upon seeing this, her son did not stop. He kept hitting her to the point where he

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3 minutes, 16 secondscould no longer count the amount of blows. By the end, her face was unrecognizable.

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3 minutes, 24 secondsNow, there are some discrepancies when it comes to exactly how Yukio came in contact with the police. Some people say that it was actually his lover, the

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3 minutes, 32 secondsolder woman, who ended up finding out about the mother and calling the cops,

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3 minutes, 36 secondsbut more commonly, most other sources state that Yukio called the cops himself.

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3 minutes, 42 secondsEither way, he was arrested on July 31st, 3 days later, and was transferred to the family court. He plainly told the

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3 minutes, 50 secondspolice that he felt she deserved to die due to the silent phone calls she made to his lover and due to her massive,

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3 minutes, 57 secondscontinually growing debt. She had also insulted his father and refused to tell him exactly what her debt was even for.

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4 minutes, 5 secondsEventually, the Yamaguchi family court had Yu-Gi-Oh sent off to a reform center for minors. They concluded that the attack on his mother was an unprovoked,

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4 minutes, 15 secondsunplanned, spur-of-the- moment sort of heat of passion sort of crime.

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4 minutes, 22 secondsThey felt that although he lacked any apparent feelings of guilt, reform may be possible. They felt sympathy for him

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4 minutes, 29 secondsafter hearing the story of his life, the death of his father, his financial struggles, his borderline starvation.

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4 minutes, 37 secondsDue to all of this, he was sentenced to stay at a juvenile detention school in Okyama. He spent his time in Okyama being pretty productive. It looked like

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4 minutes, 46 secondshe was actually making a great effort to change his life. He gained a number of certifications such as in welding and

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4 minutes, 52 secondshazardous materials engineering. He also worked on his mental health where doctors found that he had an unspecified developmental disorder that prevented

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5 minutes, 1 secondhim from forming lasting, meaningful relationships.

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5 minutes, 6 secondsHe eventually did apologize to his lawyer for the killing of his mother,

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5 minutes, 10 secondsbut kind of ruined the apology by also stating that it could not be helped. She did not tell me what she would use her borrowed money for. So, uh, I’m sorry,

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5 minutes, 22 secondsbut it’s still her fault, but I’m sorry. sort of thing.

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5 minutes, 27 secondsAnd then in October 2003, just three years after he killed his mother, Yukio was parrolled. He was released out onto

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5 minutes, 36 secondsthe streets to fend for himself with no ongoing help for his mental health, no financial support whatsoever, and nobody

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5 minutes, 43 secondsto help him control his urges and impulses. However, he was allegedly a changed man.

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5 minutes, 50 secondsAllegedly, he was hoping to meet up with the older woman he had previously dated.

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5 minutes, 56 secondsHe wasn’t really sure on how to find her, but he was confident that he could,

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6 minutestelling officers, “There’s a woman waiting for me once I leave here. But in the end, he couldn’t find her.” He didn’t stop the search, though.

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6 minutes, 11 secondsYukio, out of ideas and completely out of money, broke down and decided to go live with his grandmother.

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6 minutes, 18 secondsWhile living with her, she suggested that he go visit his mother’s grave and pay his respects. He adamantly refused,

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6 minutes, 26 secondssaying, “I won’t go to where my mother is.”

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6 minutes, 30 secondsYukio had his coming of age ceremony where he officially became an adult. However, after that point, he vanished.

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6 minutes, 39 secondsYukio became a complete ghost and flew off the radar for quite some time. We now know that during this time he had moved on to a new city entirely and had

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6 minutes, 48 secondsbegun hanging out around pachinko parlors a lot with pachinko parlors basically being small legal casinos.

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6 minutes, 57 secondsHe spent a lot of his time here hanging out with other thugs who frequented and worked at the parlors. He was able to

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7 minutes, 4 secondsmake money through illegal means albeit but still never managed to have much more than the bare minimum needed to survive. When he had time, he went back

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7 minutes, 13 secondsto his hometown to search for that woman, but still never found her. Yukio ended up finally getting enough money to

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7 minutes, 21 secondsget a place to live in an area in the city of Osaka, where he lived in a block of condominiums.

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7 minutes, 28 secondsHe was soon caught and detained by a police officer after he was caught creeping out a bunch of women by trespassing in the women’s only condominiums,

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7 minutes, 38 secondsbut he was released shortly thereafter.

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7 minutes, 41 secondsAfter 2 years of this, Yu-Gi-Oh flew back onto the radar, becoming quite the opposite of a ghost and committing a

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7 minutes, 49 secondscrime that would go on to make him famous and would go on to make the courts realize that they made a horrible mistake in ever releasing him. In the

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7 minutes, 58 secondssame condominium block that Yukio lived in, there was a room belonging to two sisters. These girls were named Osuka,

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8 minutes, 5 secondswho was 27, and Chihiro, who was 19.

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8 minutes, 10 secondsThey never knew or really noticed Yu-Gi-Oh, but he definitely noticed them. He took quite a liking to them, especially to the older sister, Asuka.

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8 minutes, 19 secondsHe became captivated by her and could not get his mind off of her. The thing is, Oscar bore a strong resemblance to the older woman that Yukio used to date.

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8 minutes, 29 secondsHe went from peeking at her to watching her to following her around the building until eventually he learned what unit she lived in.

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8 minutes, 39 secondsLater in November, he hatched a plan.

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8 minutes, 44 secondsHe messed around with the power supply to the unit and caused a power outage.

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8 minutes, 49 secondsDuring this time, he did his best to find out if there were any other people besides Oscar and Chihiro living in the home. But when he did this, nobody was

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8 minutes, 58 secondshome. On November 17th in 2005, 5 years after the killing of his mother and two years after his release, he waited

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9 minutes, 7 secondsoutside Oscar’s apartment until she came home from work. When she did, he ambushed her, brandishing a knife and

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9 minutes, 14 secondspushing her into the apartment. Later on in the evening, when Chihiro came home,

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9 minutes, 18 secondshe attacked her as well. Now that he finally had the two of them together in the apartment, he began his assault. He

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9 minutes, 26 secondsphysically forced himself on both women and then using his knife he stabbed both women in the chest and face repeatedly

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9 minutes, 34 secondsmany times. They were stabbed so much that both of them passed away from their wounds fairly quickly. When he was done,

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9 minutes, 41 secondsYukio stole whatever cash he could find,

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9 minutes, 44 secondswhich was only about 5,000 yen or around $50. He found Oscar’s favorite lighter and decided to take it. and in the

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9 minutes, 53 secondsprocess he decided to burn down the apartment as well.

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9 minutes, 58 secondsThe fire was quickly spotted and reported at the condominium. Once the fire department was able to put out the quickly spreading flames, they went inside to find something even worse.

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10 minutes, 9 secondsThey found the bodies of the two women and the police were quickly on scene shortly after.

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10 minutes, 15 secondsIt didn’t take very long for suspicion to fall on Yukio. He had recently just been detained for creeping around the

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10 minutes, 22 secondsapartment after all. On December 5th, a few days later, he was brought in for questioning where he quickly confessed

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10 minutes, 30 secondsto both violating and killing the two women. He told the officers, “I could not forget the feeling when I killed my mother and wanted to see human blood.”

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10 minutes, 42 secondsHe told them about the murder weapon, a kitchen knife that he owned, and told them that he had thrown it away at a shrine a couple of hundred meters away from the crime scene. He wasn’t lying,

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10 minutes, 52 secondsand the cops picked it up fairly quickly.

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10 minutes, 55 secondsYukio was swiftly booked and charged with double homicide. It wasn’t a hard cell, as there was a wealth of evidence

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11 minutes, 2 secondsagainst him, and he had confessed to the crimes. using descriptive details that only the killer would know, including the exact location of the murder weapon

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11 minutes, 11 secondsitself. He also still had Oscar’s lighter on him, both connecting him to the fire and placing himself in the apartment.

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11 minutes, 21 secondsRobbery was listed as one possible motive for the crime, but Yukio’s lawyers argued that it wasn’t actually something that he had planned

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11 minutes, 29 secondsbeforehand, and that taking their money was just a spur-of-the- moment sort of thing.

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11 minutes, 35 secondsThe prosecution accused him of committing the crime for nothing more than the mere pleasure of it. But his lawyers argued that he was incapable of

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11 minutes, 43 secondscomprehending the difference between right and wrong at the time the crime was committed. Their assertion brought to question, was Yukio even competent to

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11 minutes, 51 secondsstand trial if he was that deficient? It was ordered that he undergo psychiatric testing as well of a slew of other tests, both to better understand his

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12 minutes, 1 secondmental state and even his character itself. It didn’t help that Yukio was frequently spouting creepy remarks in

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12 minutes, 7 secondscourt, such as, “Killing humans is the same as breaking something.”

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12 minutes, 14 secondsThe lawyers received a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome for Yukio.

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12 minutes, 18 secondsBut the judge had already accepted other expert testimony that Yukio was actually fully confident and completely able to stand trial for his crimes.

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12 minutes, 29 secondsIt didn’t take long for the lawyers to come to realize that Yukio’s case was simply unwininnable. Their main goal became securing a life sentence instead

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12 minutes, 38 secondsof the death penalty, but even that was an uphill battle. During the trial, the prosecutors pointed out that although it

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12 minutes, 46 secondsseemed he was a changed man, after he was released from his juvenile detention school, Yukio became a criminal vagrant,

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12 minutes, 53 secondsmoving from place to place, ripping people off, and stealing money from pachinko parlors. They next presented a

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13 minutesmountain of evidence against him. It was suspected that Yukio had planned on living off of the money he stole from the sisters while running away from the

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13 minutes, 7 secondspolice, not realizing that he wouldn’t get an amount sufficient for that. All of the evidence together was simply overwhelming, and there was no doubt

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13 minutes, 16 secondsthat he had committed the crimes. Yukio himself had a strong suspicion that he would be sentenced to death. “Obviously,

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13 minutes, 24 secondsI will be sentenced to death. I’m not afraid of death,” he stated frankly. His lawyers went on to lament that he has no

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13 minutes, 32 secondsdesire to live and his feelings do not extend to the life of another person either. It will probably be impossible for him to sincerely repent from the bottom of his heart.

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13 minutes, 44 secondsHis main attorney at the time was extremely disappointed in not being able to find even an ounce of regret or

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13 minutes, 50 secondsremorse within Yukio. It could have drastically improved their odds of getting a life sentence, but the guilt simply was not there.

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14 minutesHe had been difficult to communicate with from the very start. But it had gotten worse throughout the trial. He

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14 minutes, 7 secondslost more and more weight, became more and more fatigued, and asked if he could just go ahead and get executed as soon as possible. The father and brother of

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14 minutes, 16 secondsthe Uhhara sisters were present during the trial, holding photos of the victims. Commenting on the length of the case, their father, Kazoui Uehara, said,

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14 minutes, 27 seconds”Which will come first? My own death or the execution? That’s all I’ve been thinking about? I now have something to

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14 minutes, 34 secondstake with me to my daughters when it’s my time to go.”

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14 minutes, 39 secondsEventually, the Osaka District Court sentenced Yukio Yamaji to death for the murder of the two women. In the end, he

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14 minutes, 46 secondsand his lawyers had withdrawn their appeal. They accepted the death sentence. “You simply didn’t care to

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14 minutes, 53 secondspursue it, or at least didn’t have the energy to.” “It was a cruel and outrageous crime,”

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15 minutessaid the judge, Masaw Namiki. “The defendant has not reflected on his crime, and it’s unlikely that he will be rehabilitated. His criminal

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15 minutes, 8 secondsresponsibility is too heavy. The defendant is dangerous, and he is obsessed with killing people.” The victims were killed in unimaginable fear

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15 minutes, 16 secondsand pain, and it is inevitable to hand down capital punishment.

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15 minutes, 21 secondsHer opinion on Yu-Gi-Oh was made very clear. The father of the two women spoke at a news conference after the

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15 minutes, 28 secondssentencing. Executing him will never bring them back, he said. But he feels Yamji deserves to be put to death. The

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15 minutes, 36 secondsruling makes me feel justice still exists in Japan, he said.

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15 minutes, 41 secondsWithout family or friends or really anybody, and even absent of any last words, Yukio remained completely silent

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15 minutes, 49 secondsas he made his way to the execution chamber. He never apologized for killing the two women, never gave any clear

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15 minutes, 56 secondsmotivation, and never gave any closure aside from what was to come. Yukio Yamaji was executed by hanging alongside

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16 minutes, 4 secondsanother murderer, a serial killer, in fact. Hiroshi Muer. Yukio was the youngest person to be executed in Japan

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16 minutes, 13 secondssince 1972, being only 25 years old. The father of the two women, still coping with his health after suffering a stroke

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16 minutes, 21 secondsin the year before, heard from the media that the execution had taken place. It can be assumed that he was happy he lived long enough to see the killer of

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16 minutes, 30 secondshis daughters given the ultimate punishment.

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