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Lawyers call for stop to executions The Japan Federation of Bar Associations urged the justice minister to suspend executions of death row inmates June 15. In a letter submitted to Justice Minister Seiken Sugiura, the organization said executions should be suspended given the possibility that rulings might be wrong, as has occurred in past cases. The call came ahead of the end of this Diet session June 18. The group said that the government has carried out executions in the past while the Diet was not in session to avoid debate about the issue. "We call for a temporary legislation to halt executions until there is a thorough national debate on whether to keep the death penalty," the group said. Executions were resumed in 1993 after a three-year suspension. Two were carried out in 2004, about average for Japan over the past 20 years, while there were 59 executions in the United States that year, according to Amnesty International. One execution was carried out last year.
The Japan Times Weekly: June 24, 2006 |
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