Genzo Kurita

Genzo Kurita
Born	Genzo Kurita 3 November 1926(1926-11-03) Akita, Japan
Dee'd	14 October 1959(1959-10-14) (aged 32)
Cause o daith	Daith sentence bi hangin
Criminal penalty	Daith
Killins
Victims	8
Span o killins	Februar 1948–Januar 13, 1952
Kintra	Japan
State(s)	Chiba, Tochigi, Shizuoka
Date apprehendit	Januar 16, 1952

Genzo Kurita (栗田 源蔵, Kurita Genzō, November 3, 1926 – October 14, 1959) wis a Japanese serial killer, who murthert aicht fowk.

Murthers

Kurita murthered twa girlfriends in Februar 1948. On August 8, 1951, he raped an murthert a 24-year-auld woman beside her baby. He then haed sex wi her corpse.

On October 11, 1951, he rapit an murthert a 29-year-auld wumman. He threw her three childer frae the clint cried Osen Korogashi, ane survivit.

Kurita killed a 63-year-auld wumman an her 24-year-auld niece on Januar 13, 1952. Efter the murthers, he haed sex wi the niece's deid bouk. At the crime scene, the polis foond his fingerprints.

Arrest, trial, an execution

Kurita wis arrestit on Januar 16, 1952.

On August 12, 1952, the destrict court in Chiba sentencit him tae daith for the last twa murthers. The destrict court in Utsunomiya sentencit him tae daith for sax ithers on Dizember 21, 1953. He appealed the sentences, but acause o mental instability he retractit his appeals on October 21, 1954. He wis considered tae be neurotic an a danger tae hissel. He wis executit on October 14, 1959.

Eftermath

On Mey 10, 1956, a pro-daith penalty prosecutor in Supreme Public Prosecutors Office introducit Kurita intae a debate aboot caipital punishment in the Diet.

See an aw

• Yoshio Kodaira

Freemit airtins

• (in Japanese) Article on the serial murders Archived 2007-11-11 at the Wayback Machine