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| Japan hangs Chinese murder... |
| 2019-12-27 |
| [MSN] Japan has hanged a Chinese man for the high-profile and brutal murder of a family of four, the first execution of a foreigner in 10 years. Justice Minister Masako Mori: "It is an extremely cruel and brutal case" The man, Wei Wei, carried out the murders in 2003 with two accomplices. They fled to China, where one was executed in 2005 and the other sentenced to life in jail. Japan has more than 100 prisoners on death row. Fifteen were executed last year, including 13 members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult. Japan only started to disclose the names of executed inmates in 2007. Since then only one foreigner has been named - a Chinese man hanged in 2009. Justice Minister Masako Mori said she had signed off on the execution of Wei Wei "after careful consideration". "It is an extremely cruel and brutal case in which the happily living family members, including an eight-year-old and 11-year-old, were all murdered because of truly selfish reasons," she said. In Japan, death row inmates are not told of their impending execution until the day it is carried out. |
| Posted by:M. Murcek |
| #3 So Wei Wei is well hung? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-12-27 11:19 |
| #2 No recidivism. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-12-27 10:50 |
| #1 ..sort of like Texas hangs Mexican murderer? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-27 07:56 |