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| Japan hangs two inmates, first under Aso government |
| 2008-10-28 |
| Justice Minister Eisuke Mori announced on Tuesday that two death-row inmates have been executed, marking the first executions under the government of Prime Minister Taro Aso formed in late September and breaking a record high for the number of people executed per year. According to the Justice Ministry, the two are Michitoshi Kuma, 70, who was at the Fukuoka detention center, and Masahiro Takashio, 55, at the Sendai detention center. They were the first executions since Sept. 11. They bring the annual total of people executed by the government to 15, the most since 1999 when the government started publishing the number of people executed.The government has been executing inmates at a pace of once around every two months since the period of former Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama. An execution of a death-row inmate requires authorization by the justice minister. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #2 sounds like a pretty good idea. I.m sure said countries would find some reason not too take them though |
| Posted by: chris 2008-10-28 10:39 |
| #1 I'm surprised that Japan still does executions. We get so much flack from EU about our executions. I just had a thought. Let's micro chip our beasts in the brain or someplace where it's a bit difficult to take it out and offer our worst to countries who are too civilized to execute them. send a crazed serial killer to Sweden, for example. I'm sure, Holland could find a nice home for one of our drug gang executioners. That way, we're happy, the host country is happy and who cares about the feelings of the brutes we send there? If they sneak back and are caught, then, of course, it is execution without process, since process had already been done. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-10-28 09:51 |