Japan hangs 1 death-row inmate

Japan hangs 1 death-row inmate

Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 25, 2015, to announce that a death-row inmate was hanged, in the 12th execution since the December 2012 launch of the government headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. She ordered the execution of Tsukasa Kanda, who was convicted of killing a woman in 2007 in Nagoya, central Japan, after he and his two accomplices met via an Internet site for finding "crime partners." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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