Japan can only sentence criminals who cannot be sentenced to death to a maximum of 30 years in prison . However, this Japanese man was actually sentenced to 41 years in prison. Why?
It is reported that the man who was sentenced to 41 years in prison is called Imaizumi Shigehiro and is an unemployed vagrant. Between July 2018 and December 2019, he committed sexual violence against seven women in Fukuoka Prefecture, and robbed or extorted money. After his arrest, old and new accounts were calculated together, and the prosecutors accused him of committing a total of 13 crimes.
Japanese media stated that during the commission of the crime, Imaizumi Shigehiro was also sentenced to probation in October 2019 for other minor crimes. So the local district court took this suspended sentence as a watershed and sentenced him to 16 years for previous crimes and 25 years for crimes after October 2019. A total of 41 years of implementation.
What I want to say is that this sentence is very rare, because the upper limit of fixed-term imprisonment in Japan is 30 years.
Imaizumi Shigehiro is of course not convinced by this verdict. The Criminal Code stipulates that the upper limit of fixed-term imprisonment is 30 years, and a 41-year sentence is illegal. However, the Fukuoka Prefectural High Court upheld the first instance verdict.
Imaizumi finally appealed to the Supreme Court of Japan. As a result, on June 25, the Supreme Court still rejected his appeal. It seems that even if he does not die in prison, he will be very old when he comes out 41 years later.
However, Japanese law also has a parole system for "model" criminals. How many years will Imaizumi Seihiro end up in prison? Only God knows.
Japanese netizens commented on this:
Even if he is sentenced to life imprisonment, if he is a model criminal, he can be released on parole . I hope this system will be abolished. If the minimum number of years for parole is about 50 years, I think it is acceptable ( indefinite でもmodel master なら仮釈release で出てくるsystem は无くしてdesire しいね. 仮釈release るminimum number of years を50 years くらいにするなら见めてもいいと思うけどね).
