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| Four prisoners executed in Japan |
| 2008-04-10 |
| Four death row prisoners have been executed in Japan, the authorities have announced. The four inmates, aged between 41 and 64, were hanged at separate locations in Japan, the justice ministry said. Japan, one of the few industrialised countries to retain the death penalty, appears to be stepping up the pace of prisoner executions. Three capital sentences were carried out in February, as well as nine executions in 2007. Human rights groups are critical of the secrecy surrounding executions in Japan. Relatives are told only after the hangings have taken place and, until December 2007, the names of those executed were not publicly announced. But justice ministry officials and opinion polls suggest that there is considerable support for the death penalty among the Japanese public. Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama played down talk of an acceleration in executions. "I have not paid any attention to the interval (since February's executions)," he told reporters. "As justice minister, I am simply carrying out the demands of the law." |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #5 Besides, the Chinese are Communists, so anything they do is OK. Same goes for the Islamic countries. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-04-10 18:35 |
| #4 thye are scared of such countries that will tell them too go fuck themselves |
| Posted by: sinse 2008-04-10 18:29 |
| #3 China is believed to have executed about 3,400 prisoners last year. Where's the outrage? Liberals and do-gooders never like to take on somebody that will tell them to go f*ck themselves. They much rather prefer to browbeat moderates and truly democratic countries. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-04-10 08:40 |
| #2 Japan, one of the few industrialised countries to retain the death penalty.. Which means the elites haven't full control yet to dictate to the people what they can and can not have regardless of the quaint terms democracy or republic. Bets on the number of executions carried out in Japan's homes, streets, businesses, schools, as opposed to, say, those our own States? Those loudest about 'innocent' civilians dying in Iraq et al, seem to be rather deaf and indifferent about ending 'innocent' civilian being intentionally targeted and murdered in their own domain. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-04-10 08:26 |
| #1 That would be four they will no longer have to provide a rice ration to. Good on the Nips. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-04-10 07:27 |