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The Japanese Justice Ministry has executed three death-row inmates this morning June 17. Japan refused to abolish the death penalty at a UN Human Rights Council meeting last week in Geneva and today’s executions bring the number of death by executions carried out under Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama to 13 since he assumed the post in August 2007.

As of now, In Japan there are 103 inmates sitting on Death row.

Tsutomu Miyazaki, 45, was hanged for killing four young girls in 1988 and 1989 in Tokyo and neighbouring Saitama province, while Shinji Mutsuda, 37, was convicted of murder robbery. They were executed in Tokyo.

Yoshio Yamasaki, 73, who was convicted of murdering two women in 1985 and 1990 for insurance money, was executed in Osaka Detention House.

[via monstersandcritics]