Japan exercises death penalty after two years
Japan hanged three convicted multiple murderers on Thursday, after almost two years putting it back, Reuters reported.
Japan and the United States are the only leading developed nations to carry out the death penalty till today.
Justice Minister Toshio Ogawa authorized the executions of the three men and they were hanged in jails in Tokyo, Hiroshima and Fukuoka, the ministry said.
There are currently 132 inmates on death row in Japan, Kyodo news agency reported. They include 13 members of the doomsday cult that staged deadly gas attacks on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
Japanese media reported that one of the men executed on Thursday had killed five people at a train station in western Japan in 1999.