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"Japan hangs two, announces review of death penalty"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this notable press report on death penalty developments in the land of the rising sun.  Here are the detais: Japan's justice minister, a foe of capital punishment, announced a review of the death penalty Wednesday after witnessing the first executions since her centre-left government took power last year. The two male convicts hanged were Kazuo Shinozawa, 59, who killed six people by setting fire to a jewellery store, and Hidenori Ogata, 33, convicted of killing a man and a woman and seriously injuring two others. Keiko Chiba, the first justice minister to personally watch a government execution, carried out at the Tokyo Detention House, afterwards told media she wanted a ministry study group to review the practice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 28, 2010 (boomark / email).