In Japan hung a 40-year-old Chinese man who in 2003 killed a family of four and threw their bodies into the sea.
The penalty, which took place on Thursday, was the first in Japan for the last 10 years. Prisoners sentenced to death in this country, I don’t know about the approach of his death until the day they die.
The Minister of justice of Japan Masako Mori said that signed agreement on the execution of 40-year-old Wei Wei «after careful consideration».
Japan has executed a 40-year-old Chinese national who was found guilty of burglarizing the family home of a clothing shop owner and killing the entire family in 2003.https://t.co/Qfxeq4hWjL
— NPR (@NPR) December 27, 2019
«This was an extremely brutal murder. All family members, including children (8 and 11), were killed for absolutely selfish reasons,» she said.
Wei came to Japan to study the language. He admitted that he participated in the killings, but denied that he was the organizer of the crime. Wei and his two accomplices robbed the house of a Japanese businessman Shinjiro Matsumoto (41) in Fukuoka in June 2003 and strangled him with his tie. 40-year-old wife Matsumoto they drowned in the bathtub, and their two children, strangled. The bodies of the dead, they tied weights (dumbbells), and then the bodies of all family members were dumped in Hakata Bay.
Two accomplices Wei fled to China and was arrested there. One of them was executed in 2005 and the other sentenced to life imprisonment.
In Japan, more than 100 prisoners are on death row. Fifteen of them were executed last year, including 13 members of the doomsday cult AUM Shinrikyo. Japan began to disclose the names of executed prisoners in 2007. Meanwhile, the last executed by a foreigner was also a Chinaman, hanged in 2009. He was convicted of killing three Chinese people with whom he lived in Tokyo.
The increase in the number of executions in 2018 was the result of the execution of death sentences in terrorist attack using nerve agent sarin in the Tokyo subway in 1995. They were organized and carried out by representatives of the cult AUM Shinrikyo, a religious group that believed that the world was ending.
Today, Japan executed Aum Shinrikyo cult members responsible for the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Here’s what to know about the Aum Shinrikyo cult (from the archives): https://t.co/4rulLg8fUH pic.twitter.com/UnodGvRYA4
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) November 6, 2018
In 1995, in the attack, 13 people were killed and at least 5800 was injured.
More than two decades after Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo cult Tokyo plunged into terror by releasing sarin, a nerve agent, on rush-hour subway trains, its spinoffs continue to attract new followers. The attack killed 13 people and injured thousands https://t.co/aD7m0Jpmha @AFP
— AFP Tokyo (@AFPTokyo) March 18, 2018
Cult leader Shoko Asahara has been on death row together with his 12 disciples. They were accused of many crimes, including the attack on the Tokyo subway.
Tokyo sarin attack: Japan executes last Aum Shinrikyo member on death row https://t.co/bhzOvwQQqN
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 26, 2018
Last year they were executed, because even in prison, according to the authorities, represented a great danger for people. The cult began to revive, recognizing Asahara «Supreme being».
