Posted on 03/29/2012 5:49:15 AM PDT by derfel
Three death row inmates in Japan were executed by hanging on Thursday, the country's first executions in more than a year and a half.
The men were reportedly hanged in three different prisons. One was convicted of ramming a car into a train station and then knifing people nearby, killing five, in 1999. The second killed two people in 2001 and the third killed three in 2002.
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Hm mm.As far as I know, Japan has never used such method.
Executions in Japan has been hanging since Meiji Restoration(1868).
In medieval, most executions are carried by beheading .Samurais were allowed to commit ritualized suicide now known as seppuku(aka:Harakiri) instead of beheading.
I also heard crucifixion,death by burning and death by boiling were occasionally used.
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