{"id":26173,"date":"2024-01-25T14:47:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T05:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=26173"},"modified":"2024-01-25T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T05:47:28","slug":"20240125-26173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240125-26173\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto Anime arsonist sentenced to death by Japanese court\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Kyoto District Court sentenced Shinji Aoba (45) to death after he was found guilty of killing 36 people in the Kyoto Animation arson attack on July 2019.\u00a0<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KyoAni fire: arson attack at Kyoto Animation studio in Japan\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sf8YtVHpE-U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The long-awaited trials for Aoba first started in September 2023, as he had previously been recovering from life-threatening burns sustained in the incident. During the trials, the most disputed point was whether the court would acknowledge the defense\u2019s argument of homicide by willful negligence or find Aoba guilty of murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, announcing the court\u2019s verdict, the presiding judge stated that the accused was not found to be in a mentally ill nor weakened state and had the ability to make judgements (<a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/news\/html\/20240125\/k10014333101000.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NHK<\/a>). As Aoba was found to be fully responsible for one of the deadliest cases in recent Japanese history, he was given the death penalty.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking: The Japanese court has found the Kyoto Anime arsonist fully responsible for the death of 36 studio employees and has sentenced him to the death penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":21440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[73,17],"class_list":["post-26173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anime","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kyoto Anime arsonist sentenced to death by Japanese court\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240125-26173\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kyoto Anime arsonist sentenced to death by Japanese court\u00a0 - 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