Japan: A death sentence was carried out for the first time in over a year

After an arson attack

Murderer executed in Japan

After just over a year, the government in Tokyo carried out another death sentence. It is the first execution since Prime Minister Takaichi took office.

In Japan, a murderer sentenced to death has been executed for the first time in a long time. Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi announced this in Tokyo after the verdict was carried out. The man hanged was a 58-year-old who was sentenced to the maximum sentence for killing five people in an arson attack on an arcade in the western Japanese city of Osaka in 2009. It was the first execution under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who has been in power since October last year.

In the last execution to date, a serial killer was executed in June last year. The man was convicted of the murder of nine young people and was also charged with sexual abuse of the victims and robbery.

The island kingdom of Japan, the fourth largest economics in the world, is one of the few industrialized countries that still adhere to the death penalty.