Japan executes first foreigner in 10 years in family murder.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.TOKYO -- Japan executed its first foreigner in 10 years on Thursday, a Chinese man convicted in the 2003 murder and robbery of a family of four.
Wei was convicted of robbing and killing a clothing store owner and his wife and two children at their home in Fukuoka. He and two Chinese accomplices dumped the bodies into the ocean after attaching weights to them, Mori said at a news conference.Mori said she signed the execution order after careful examination, taking into consideration the international anti-execution movement.
“The country has shown that it lags far behind most of its peers,” Arnold Fang, an East Asia researcher for the group, said in a statement. He noted that more than 100 other countries have abolished the death penalty. Japan now has 112 people on death row, including 84 seeking retrials, according to the justice ministry.
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