[NY Post] Japan executed its first foreigner-born prisoner in a decade Thursday ‐ a Chinese man accused in the high-profile murder of a family of four, according to new reports.The 40-year-old man, Wei Wei, was put to death by hanging.
like Jeffery Epstein, he didn't hang himself
Wei burglarized the home of 41-year-old clothing dealer Shinjiro Matsumoto in June 2003 and killed him, his wife and their two children in a conspiracy with two other Chinese men, Justice Minister Masako Mori said in the final ruling, according to Kyodo News.
The trio stole valuables from the family’s home and used weights to submerge the family in the Hakata port in the city of Fukuoka, Mori said.
"It is an extremely cruel and brutal case in which the happily living family members, including an 8-year-old and 11-year-old, were all murdered because of truly selfish reasons," Mori said, according to the BBC.
Matsumoto and both kids were strangled or smothered, and his wife drowned in the bath, according to the report.
Japanese policy dictates that death row inmates are not told of their impending execution until the day it is set to happen.