Genzo Kurita

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Genzo Kurita (Japanese: 栗田 源蔵, Hepburn: Kurita Genzō, November 3, 1926 – October 14, 1959) was a Japanese serial killer who murdered eight people.

Murders[]

Kurita murdered two girlfriends in February 1948. On August 8, 1951, he raped and murdered a 24-year-old woman beside her baby. He then had sex with her corpse.^{[citation needed]}

On October 11, 1951, he raped and murdered a 29-year-old woman. He threw her three children from a cliff called . One survived.^{[citation needed]}

Kurita killed a 63-year-old woman and her 24-year-old niece on January 13, 1952. Afterward, he had sex with the niece's dead body. At the crime scene, the police found his fingerprints.^{[citation needed]}

Arrest, trial, and execution[]

Kurita was arrested on January 16, 1952.^{[citation needed]}

On August 12, 1952, the district court in Chiba sentenced him to death for the last two murders. The district court in Utsunomiya sentenced him to death for six others on December 21, 1953. He appealed the sentences, but because of mental instability he retracted his appeals on October 21, 1954. He was considered to be neurotic and a danger to himself. He was executed on October 14, 1959.^{[citation needed]}

Aftermath[]

On May 10, 1956, a pro-death penalty prosecutor in Supreme Public Prosecutors Office introduced Kurita into a debate about capital punishment in the Diet.^[1]

See also[]

• Yoshio Kodaira
• Capital punishment debate
• List of serial killers by country

References[]

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