TOKYO —
Japan hanged two men on Thursday, bringing to eight the number of prisoners executed since the conservative government of Shinzo Abe came to power a year ago.
“There are various criticisms of the death penalty… but Japanese law allows for it and I believe we have people’s support in principle,” Justice Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said as he announced the latest executions.
Surveys have showed the death penalty has overwhelming public support in Japan despite repeated protests from European governments and human rights groups.
One of those executed Thursday was Ryoji Kagayama, 63, who stabbed to death a student from China after robbing her in 2000 in Osaka. He also knifed a man to death in 2008 in a failed robbery attempt. He was sentenced to death in 2012.
The other prisoner was Mitsuo Fujishima, 55, who drowned a relative of his former wife in a bath in 1986 and murdered an acquaintance of her days later in Yamanashi Prefecture.
Japan now has 129 inmates on death row, according to justice ministry data.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/japan-hangs-two-death-row-inmates-2
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