Curry Killer Running for Office from Death Row

This is Masumi Hayashi. During a local summer festival in 1998, the then 37-year old mother of 4 put arsenic in a giant bowl of curry, which was subsequently served to the masses. It killed 4 people—2 city officials and 2 kids—and made sixty-some other people really sick. Now, from Death Row, homegirl is planning to run for office in next month's Upper House elections. Despite having poisoned her entire community and tried to kill her husband at least once, she seems to think she has a fair chance at winning.

The Mainichi reports:

Under Japanese law, as long as a conviction is not confirmed, inmates are allowed to run for office. Hayashi's case remains open as she is appealing to the Supreme Court to overturn the death sentence handed down to her for killing four people by poisoning a pot of curry served at a festival in Wakayama nine years ago. Other prisoners have won elections, including late former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, who was serving a sentence for graft, and Wakayama Mayor Takuso Tabita, who retained office in April despite doing time for breach of trust. But a convicted murderer, and a mass murderer at that, has never campaigned from being bars.

I just have one thing to say to Masumi Hayashi: Bitch, you're not gonna win!

Comments

[Kuriharu]

I remember her! This whole thing happened about 2 days before I got off the plane. I noticed it took a few weeks before the curry commercials were on TV again.

I'm amazed that she's actually running. Sure she can legally do it, but does she actually think she might win?

Then again, she would represent Japan's murderer community; they've been under-represented for a long time.

[Wu-Sama]

Incredible.

[scout]

Freaky. Had I been in town, I'd have been hovering around the giant pot of curry, unknowingly awaiting its arsenic-y goodness. Shame on her for poisoning such deliciousness!