Japan executes man over 2008 truck-ramming, stabbing rampage - La Prensa Latina Media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : It is also the second use of capital punishment since Prime Minister Fumio Kishida came to power in October.
44% : In this sense, Furukawa appealed to the legal independence of Japan and to the fact that the polls considered by the government indicate that "the majority of the Japanese people are in favor of the death penalty in cruel cases."
42% : Tuesday's execution follows three inmates who in December were hanged for murder in what was the first use of the death penalty in the country in two years.
34% : Japan, along with the United States, is the only democratic and major industrialized country that still imposes capital punishment, a practice highly criticized by other governments and rights organizations.

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