Japan executed three death row inmates on Tuesday, applying the death penalty for the first time since December 2019.
"Three death row inmates were executed today," a justice ministry official has confirmed.
They were a 65-year-old man convicted of the hammer and knife murders of seven family members and neighbours in 2004, and two men aged 54 and 44 convicted of a double murder in 2003, she said.
Japan executed three convicts in 2019 and 15 in 2018, including 13 members of the Aum sect, which was
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