Japan carried out its first executions in two years on Dec. 21 by hanging three death row inmates, one of them a mass murderer, in Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture. Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa ...

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OSAKA--Three death row inmates filed a lawsuit with a district court here against the central government on Nov. 29, seeking an injunction to prevent their executions by hanging. They argue that ...