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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Japan. Death penalty..[ 1541 ]

Death row inmates executed for first time under DPJ-led administration

Justice Minister Keiko Chiba talks at a news conference following the executions of two death row inmates on July 28. (Mainichi)
Justice Minister Keiko 
 

Mainichi, July 28.2010
Two death row inmates were executed at the Tokyo Detention Center on July 28, the Justice Ministry has announced.

This is the first time that death row inmates have been hanged in a year and since the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) took over the reins of government in September last year.

Justice Minister Keiko Chiba told a subsequent news conference that she was present as the two inmates were hanged at the detention center. She also announced that a study panel will be set up to discuss whether the death penalty should be abolished and that she has instructed ministry bureaucrats to show the execution facility to the media.

Chiba apparently placed priority on fulfilling her duty as justice minister over her belief that the death penalty should be abolished. The Code of Criminal Procedure stipulates that the death penalty must be carried out on the orders of the justice minister.

Chiba was a member of a nonpartisan parliamentary league on the promotion of the abolition of the death penalty. However, she left the organization after she was appointed as justice minister saying, "I'd like to distance myself from the campaign as a member of the executive branch of the government."

The two death row inmates executed on July 28 were Hidenori Ogata, 33, and Kazuo Shinozawa, 59.
In August 2003, Ogata fatally stabbed a 28-year-old man in Saitama Prefecture after getting into a row over a 16-year-old girl he was dating, and strangled a 21-year-old man who came to the scene, according to court rulings.

Shinozawa broke into a jewelry shop in Utsunomiya in June 2000, tied up six employees and set fire to the shop, killing all of them. He then stole 293 jewelry items worth over 140 million yen, according to rulings. He carried out the murder-robbery because he was heavily in debt.
Death row inmates had been executed once every two months on average since then Justice Minister 

Kunio Hatoyama ordered executions in December 2007. However, executions had been suspended since those carried out under then Justice Minister Eisuke Mori on July 28, 2009.
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