7 minutes agoTwo Death Sentences Executed in Japan
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Japan has executed two prisoners, the first executions since November, the government announced. The two prisoners identified by the Justice Ministry are Masakatsu Nisikawa 61 and Koichi Sumida 34, who were hanged in Osaka and Hiroshima, the German DPA agency broadcast. Nisikawa was sentenced to [...]
The two prisoners identified by the Justice Ministry are Masakatsu Nisikawa 61 and Koichi Sumida 34, who were hanged in Osaka and Hiroshima, the German DPA agency broadcast.
Nisikawa was sentenced to death for killing four bar managers west of Japan in 1991.
The death penalty verdict was finalised by the Supreme Court in 2005.
Sumida was convicted of raping and killing a colleague in Okama in 2011.
The death sentence was finalised in 2013.
The total number of executions conducted under the direction of the prime minister's government, Shinzo Abe, has reached 19.
Japan is one of the few developed countries, as well as the United States, that still preserves the death penalty.
