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Japan carries out first death row executions since 2019
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Japan executed three death row inmates on Tuesday, applying the death penalty for the first time since December 2019.
"Three death row inmates were executed today," a justice ministry official has confirmed.
They were a 65-year-old man convicted of the hammer and knife murders of seven family members and neighbours in 2004, and two men aged 54 and 44 convicted of a double murder in 2003, she said.
Japan executed three convicts in 2019 and 15 in 2018, including 13 members of the Aum sect, which was involved in a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995.
Public support for capital punishment in Japan remains strong despite criticism from abroad, particularly from human rights organisations.
"Whether or not to retain the death penalty is
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