Serious injuries in Japan a mother and her daughter after being stabbed by a teenager who wanted to be “executed”

Aug. 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –

A mother and her daughter have been seriously injured after a knife attack perpetrated last Saturday night in Tokyo by a teenager who has confessed to the police that she wanted to receive the death penalty.

The teenager, who was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder on Saturday, has been identified as a 15-year-old high school student from Toda, Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.

According to initial investigations, reports the official Kyodo news agency, the young woman attacked a 53-year-old woman and her 19-year-old daughter in the Shibuya district with a kitchen knife.

The mother and daughter are seriously injured but their lives are not in danger. The daughter, in particular, suffered a stab wound to the back more than 10 centimeters deep, according to the police report released this Sunday.

The young woman has confessed that she attacked the couple as a “training” to see if she was capable of killing a person, since she had plans to kill her mother, according to research sources, and receive the death penalty as punishment.

The death penalty is criminalized in Japan and is only applied in extreme cases of aggravated murder, treason or kidnapping resulting in death. Since 2000, 118 inmates have been executed in Japan by hanging.