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Japan hanged two convicts early Friday, the first executions in two months, the Justice Ministry said.
Katsuji Hamasaki, 64, and Yoshihide Miyagi, 56, were executed in Tokyo on convictions for the fatal shooting of two leaders of a rival organized crime syndicate at a restaurant in 2005, the ministry said.
"It was an extremely vicious and cruel crime, with a risk of involving ordinary people," Justice Minister Sadakazu Ta****ki, who ordered the executions, told a news conference.
The executions brought to five the number of death sentences carried out since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took power in December. Japan hanged seven people in 2012 under then premier Yoshihiko Noda.
Amnesty International Japan said it "strongly condemned" the executions.
With the executions, Japan "has completely turned its back on the request from the international community," the human rights group said in statement.
"The United Nations has long asked its member countries to promote efforts for abolishing the death penalty," the group said.
Japan and the United States are among the few major industrialized democracies that still impose death sentences.
Japan has 134 death row inmates, including Shoko Asahara, the founder of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, and his followers. The members were give death sentences in the 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, which killed 13 and made thousands ill.
Source : Sapa-dpa /pk
Date : 26 Apr 2013 10:06
Katsuji Hamasaki, 64, and Yoshihide Miyagi, 56, were executed in Tokyo on convictions for the fatal shooting of two leaders of a rival organized crime syndicate at a restaurant in 2005, the ministry said.
"It was an extremely vicious and cruel crime, with a risk of involving ordinary people," Justice Minister Sadakazu Ta****ki, who ordered the executions, told a news conference.
The executions brought to five the number of death sentences carried out since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took power in December. Japan hanged seven people in 2012 under then premier Yoshihiko Noda.
Amnesty International Japan said it "strongly condemned" the executions.
With the executions, Japan "has completely turned its back on the request from the international community," the human rights group said in statement.
"The United Nations has long asked its member countries to promote efforts for abolishing the death penalty," the group said.
Japan and the United States are among the few major industrialized democracies that still impose death sentences.
Japan has 134 death row inmates, including Shoko Asahara, the founder of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, and his followers. The members were give death sentences in the 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, which killed 13 and made thousands ill.
Source : Sapa-dpa /pk
Date : 26 Apr 2013 10:06
