Japan executes two murderers
Submitted by admin4 on 28 July 2010 - 11:41am
By DPA,
Tokyo : Two murderers were hanged in Japan Wednesday, Justice Minister Keiko Chiba said.
Media reports said the minister was present when the executions were carried out, the first since the Democratic Party of Japan took power in September.
Kazuo Shinozawa, 59, was hanged for the murder of six female employees of a jeweller's shop in Tochigi Province in 2000.
Hidenori Ogata, 33, was convicted of a double murder carried out in 2003.
Japan is one of the few developed countries in which the death penalty is still used.
Domestic and international human rights organisations have for years denounced its use of the death penalty and prison conditions.
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