Japan executes first foreigner in 10 years in family murder

[TomSea]

Japan executes first foreigner in 10 years in family murder
The Associated Press, Tokyo Thursday, 26 December 2019

Japan executed its first foreigner in 10 years on Thursday, a Chinese man convicted in the 2003 murder and robbery of a family of four.

Wei Wei, 40, was hanged Thursday at a detention center in Fukuoka where he had been on death row for more than 16 years, Justice Minister Masako Mori said.

Wei was convicted of robbing and killing a clothing store owner and his wife and two children at their home in Fukuoka. He and two Chinese accomplices dumped the bodies into the ocean after attaching weights to them, Mori said at a news conference.

Continued at: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2019/12/26/Japan-executes-first-foreigner-in-10-years-in-family-murder.html

[Fishrrman]

16 years after the crime -- sounds like justice moves slowly in Japan as well as the USA...

[LadyLiberty]

In Japan they don't  execute  for one murder (but they don't release them  from prison either).   They execute for mass or serial killers.