Japan’s new justice minister defends death penalty amid debate over wrongful convictions

SCMP | Oct. 3, 2024, 8 p.m. | Original
Hideki Makihara defended Japan’s use of capital punishment, despite debate sparked by the acquittal of a man wrongly imprisoned on death row for nearly 50 years.
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