Japan hangs death-row inmate

Japanese Justice Minister Masako Mori speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2019, about the execution that took place earlier in the day of death-row inmate Wei Wei, a 40-year-old Chinese man convicted for killing four people in 2003. His death sentence for the murder in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, was finalized in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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