AL with AFP –
It’s an announcement that reminds us that Japan is still one of the few democratic countries that still apply the death penalty. On Tuesday, an official from the Ministry of Justice said that three death row inmates had been executed.
He is a 65-year-old man convicted of the hammer-and-knife murder of seven members of his family and neighbors in 2004, and two men, 54 and 44, convicted of a double murder in 2003, she clarified.
Tuesday’s executions came days after a fire in a psychiatric clinic in Osaka (west) killed 25 people, in which police officers announced the name of a suspect while a criminal investigation has yet to be held. officially opened.
The last execution in Japan dated back to December 2019. It had been applied against a Chinese convicted of the murders of four members of the same family in the southwest of the country in 2003. This are also the first executions decided under the mandate of the new Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, who came to power in October.