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TOKYO (AP) - Japanese courts sentenced 44 people to death in 2006, the largest number in at least 26 years, amid a toughening of sentences for violent crimes, a news report said Sunday.
The 44 death sentences were the most since at least 1980 — the earliest year for which statistics were available — and brought the total number of people on Japan's death row to 94, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said.
It said it compiled the numbers from the nation's Supreme Court, regional high courts and district courts, as well as Ministry of Justice statistics.
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