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    Japan Executions - 2017

    Japan hangs 2 inmates, including one seeking retrial

    TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan hanged two death-row inmates Thursday morning, the Justice Ministry said, including a multiple murderer who had reportedly been seeking a retrial.

    According to sources close to the matter, Masakatsu Nishikawa, one of the two inmates executed, had filed his plea for a retrial over the murders of four women in the 1990s.

    Nishikawa, 61, was convicted of murdering four bar managers in western Japan in 1991. The other inmate executed was Koichi Sumida, 34, who was found guilty for killing a female colleague in 2011 in Okayama Prefecture.

    Justice Minister Katsutoshi Kaneda ordered the executions, which were the 18th and 19th carried out since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned to power in December 2012.

    The previous execution, the first ordered by Kaneda, was in November 2016, when a man was hanged for killing two women in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan.

    Kaneda told a press conference following his first execution that the punishment was for "an extremely cruel case in which the precious lives of the victims were taken for selfish purposes. I gave the order after careful consideration."

    In October 2016, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations issued a declaration calling for the abolition of capital punishment and introduction of life sentences without parole by 2020.

    The minister has expressed opposition to abolishing death sentences, saying, "A majority of Japanese citizens believe the death penalty is inevitable against heinous crimes."

    According to human rights organization Amnesty International, a total of 141 countries legally or effectively abolished capital punishment as of the end of 2016. In 2016, 23 countries or regions, including Japan, executed inmates.

    https://mainichi.jp/english/articles...0m/0dm/040000c
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    Japan executes two murderers, including teen killer on death-row since 1992

    Opponents say Japan’s system is cruel because inmates are only told of their impending execution a few hours ahead of time

    The hangings of Teruhiko Seki and Kiyoshi Matsui bring to 21 the total number of executions since conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power in late 2012.

    Seki, 44, was convicted of killing four people in Chiba, southeast of Tokyo, in 1992 when he was 19, the ministry said.

    It was the first execution of a death-row prisoner who committed crimes as a minor since 1997 in Japan, local media said.

    People are considered adults at the age of 20 in Japan.

    Matsui, 69, was sentenced to death for killing his girlfriend and her parents in 1994.

    Both were seeking a retrial, local media said. Though not unprecedented, it is rare in Japan to put to death those appealing for a fresh trial.

    “They were extremely cruel cases,” Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa said.

    “I ordered the executions after very careful consideration,” she said.

    Japan and the United States are the only major developed countries that still carry out capital punishment.

    The death penalty has overwhelming public support in Japan despite repeated protests from European governments and human rights groups.

    Opponents say Japan’s system is cruel because inmates can be on death row for many years in solitary confinement and are only told of their impending execution a few hours ahead of time.

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    I wonder when Japan will execute Futoshi Matsunaga. He is one of the most depraved serial killers in modern history and needs to have his sentence implemented ASAP.
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    123 people on death row in Japan

    The number of death row inmates in Japan is expected to stand at 123 as of Dec. 31, continuing to surpass the threshold of 100 since 2007, Justice Ministry officials said Thursday.

    In 2017, four convicts on death row were executed and four others died of illness, while two people were newly added to the list of such inmates after death sentences against them were finalized.

    Of the four who were executed, three were still waiting to hear about their requests for retrials. Of the three, one was aged 19 at the time of the crime.
    The hangings of inmates seeking retrials were the first since December 1999, while that of an inmate who committed a crime as a minor was the first since August 1997, both drawing flak from the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and groups opposed to the death penalty.

    Japan's capital punishment has drawn international criticism, while the federation has called for its abolition by 2020, demanding the introduction of lifetime imprisonment instead.

    However, a majority of the Japanese public supports the death penalty. A 2014 government survey showed that 80.3 percent of Japanese people aged 20 or older favored capital punishment, down from a record 85.6 percent in the previous survey in 2009.

    http://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/12/...h-row-in-japan

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