AFP, TOKYOJapan yesterday hanged a Chinese man convicted of the murder of a family of four, whose bodies were found handcuffed and weighted down with dumbbells in a bay, Japanese Minister of Justice Masako Mori said. Mori said that she ordered the execution of Wei Wei (魏巍) “after careful consideration” over a robbery and multiple murders carried out with two other students in 2003. Wei, a 40-year-old former language student in Japan, had pleaded guilty to the four murder counts, but contended that he was not the central figure in the case. A Chinese man was hanged for killing three Chinese that he lived with near Tokyo and for injuring three, the Asahi Shimbun said. Japan last executed inmates in August, when two men were hanged after being convicted of murder.

Source: Taipei Times December 26, 2019 15:56 UTC