Japan hangs Chinese man in rare execution of foreigner
Japan has hanged a Chinese man for the high-profile and brutal murder of a family of four, the first execution of a foreigner in 10 years.They fled to China, where one was executed in 2005 and the other sentenced to life in jail.
Japan only started to disclose the names of executed inmates in 2007. Since then only one foreigner has been named - a Chinese man hanged in 2009.Justice Minister Masako Mori said she had signed off on the execution of Wei Wei"after careful consideration". In Japan, death row inmates are not told of their impending execution until the day it is carried out.
He and his accomplices had tried to rob the home of businessman Shinjiro Matsumoto in the city of Fukuoka.
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