BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan MPs moot halt to executions
A cross-party group of Japanese legislators has said it has drafted a bill proposing a four-year moratorium on the death penalty. The bill, a step towards abolition, will shortly be submitted to parliament and introduces life imprisonment without parole as a substitute. Japan and the United States are the only industrial democracies to maintain capital punishment. But the initiative is likely to m
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Four prisoners executed in Japan
Four prisoners on death row in Japan have been hanged, the country's justice ministry has said. They are the country's first executions under Japan's new Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. Japan, like the United States, is one of the world's few developed countries to exercise capital punishment. It has been reported that those hanged included a taxi driver convicted of four murders. The last hanging in
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第168回国会 119 死刑制度を取り巻く状況と死刑制度に対する政府の認識に関する質問主意書
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