Japan: Secret execution as authorities ignore calls for reform | Amnesty International
“It is chilling that the Japanese authorities
continue to send people to the gallows despite serious questions over
the use of the death penalty in the country,” said Hiroka Shoji, East
Asia Researcher at Amnesty International
Mitsuhiro Kobayashi, 56, and Tsutomu Takamizawa, 59 were hanged in Japan early on Friday morning
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