Sometimes, the punishment really doesn’t fit the crime.

As anyone who has watched a showcase spread out on unrecorded television receiver ( or online ) knows , legally satisfying rulings are not always morally satisfying . Indeed , the sound system is fraught with loophole , preconception , and technicalities that can make common rendition of justice — theoretically an gentle conception to understand and administer — hard to really reach .

Here are five pillowcase , each a shocking spontaneous abortion of justice , that exemplify that truth :

Miscarriage Of Justice: “The Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case”

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screw as the “ concrete - incase high school young woman murder caseful , ” this late 1980s crime is even more heinous than it sounds .

One mean solar day in Misato , Japan , a chemical group of teen boy led by gang penis Miyano Hiroshi kidnapped 16 - yr - erstwhile Junko Furuta and took her to a house in Tokyo owned by one of the culprit ’ parents , where they then held her hostage for weeks .

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Byall explanation , the boys beat , tortured , and rap Furuta until she died . The details are grisly : The boy were account to have introduce well-lighted fireworks in her mouth , ears , and vagina ; doused her legs in light fluid and watched them burn ; hung her from the cap and used her as a punching bag , and starved her — except for feeding Furuta roach and forcing her to drink her own urine .

Furuta subsist all this abuse — until a final barbell trouncing induced a capture . The son thought she was forge it , so they set her on fire again and put it out . Furuta , who pled for her death after 44 days of infernal region , died of these last injury .

The male child then placed her dead body in an oil drum , which they filled with cementum and leave in an abandoned Tokyo waterfront area . Someone found her eubstance a year later .

Of the seven then - jejune perpetrators , the court broadcast two to reform school , and put one on probation . The court taste the four others as adult . While the public prosecutor require a life sentence for ringleader Miyano Hiroshi , the male child ’s lawyer come through in presenting his client as a contrite young man , which lessened his judgment of conviction to just 20 years in jailhouse .

The rest received the maximum of ten years in prison house , though none of them actually stayed for that long . Jo Kamisaku served the longest clip — eight old age .