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Japan continues its recent stepped-up pace for executions

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this news report, which is headlined "Japan executes three for multiple murders," the one other major industrial nation with the death penalty has been stepping up its pace of executions in recent years.  Here are details from the article: Japan on Tuesday hanged three inmates convicted of multiple murders including a Chinese national and a middle-aged man who found his victims through an Internet suicide site, the justice minister said. The government identified the condemned as Hiroshi Maeue, 40, Yukio Yamaji, 25, and Chinese national Chen Detong, 41, who had killed three of his compatriots and wounded three more Chinese people. All three men had committed "grave and cruel" crimes and "taken precious lives with very selfish motives," Justice Minister Eisuke Mori said after the sentences were carried out in Tokyo and the western city of Osaka...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 28, 2009 (boomark / email).