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JAPAN: LAWMAKER GROUP SEEKING END TO DEATH PENALTY TO RESUME ACTIVITIES

August 11, 2014: Japanese media reported that a Diet members’ group formed to end the death penalty was planning to resume operations as early as September 2014 after suspending its activities following the 2012 election.
The group headed by Shizuka Kamei, 77, an independent in the Lower House, wants to establish a new prison sentence – life without parole – to make taking capital punishment of the books easier.
Alarmed by the execution of nine inmates since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took power following the Lower House election in December 2012, Kamei, a former police officer who once headed the now-defunct Kokumin Shinto (People’s New Party), and other group members have called on ruling and opposition lawmakers in both Diet houses to join the parliamentary body.
The group, established in 1994 had more than 100 members at one point, but its membership has declined to around 30 and the group has not held a full meeting since the 2012 general election.
The parliamentary group will aim to submit a bill to the Diet that initially calls for the establishment of life sentences without parole, suspends the execution of death-row inmates and only allows the death penalty to be handed down when all 3 professional judges and 6 citizen judges agree.  Kamei said the establishment of a life sentence without parole would lead to a decline in the number of people who support the death penalty and eventually see capital punishment phased out. (Sources: Japan Times, 11/08/2014)

UKRAINE: DONETSK SEPARATISTS INTRODUCE DEATH PENALTY FOR TREASON
IRAN: ELEVEN PEOPLE HANGED IN KARAJ, A MAN EXECUTED IN PUBLIC IN MIANEH
SAUDI ARABIA: THE WAVE OF EXECUTIONS CONTINUES, ANOTHER FOUR BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
SOMALIA: FORMER ARMY SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SOMALILAND
SAUDI ARABIA: TWO SAUDIS BEHEADED FOR MURDERING COMPATRIOTS
AFGHANISTAN: FIVE CIVILIANS HANGED IN KAJAKI DISTRICT OF HELMAN
INDONESIA: GOVERNMENT SAVES 190 NATIONALS FROM DEATH SENTENCE
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES TWO MEN IN LOWER JUBA
SAUDI ARABIA: TWO PEOPLE BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING AND MURDER
VIETNAM: 6 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
INDIA: TWO SISTERS MAY BECOME FIRST EVER WOMEN TO BE HANGED IN THE COUNTRY
IRAN: FOUR PRISONERS HANGED IN TWO DIFFERENT IRANIAN PRISONS
UNITED KINGDOM: 45% OF BRITS WANT TO BRING BACK DEATH PENALTY – 50 YRS AFTER LAST EXECUTION
SAUDI ARABIA: SYRIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER BEHEADED IN AL-JAWF REGION
IRAN: A 22-YEAR OLD MAN HANGED IN BIRJAND
SAUDI ARABIA: A NATIONAL BEHEADED FOR KILLING HIS WIFE
SYRIA: 25 PEOPLE EXTRA-JUDICIALLY EXECUTED BY ISIL
IRAN: THREE PRISONERS HANGED IN KARAJ
SAUDI ARABIA: THREE MEN BEHEADED FOR MURDER AND DRUG TRAFFICKING
USA: OHIO’S DEATH-PENALTY MORATORIUM EXTENDED UNTIL NEXT JANUARY
IRAN: AT LEAST NINE PRISONERS EXECUTED IN RASHT AND ZAHEDAN, INCLUDING A JUVENILE OFFENDER HANGED ALONG WITH HIS MOTHER
IRAN: TWO MEN HANGED IN PUBLIC
KENYA: AL-SHABAAB SUSPECT TO BE EXTRADITED TO SOMALIA
CHINA: ANOTHER SOUTH KOREAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
EGYPT: MUFTI URGES REVIEW OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADER DEATH SENTENCE
CHINA: 2 KOREAN SMUGGLERS EXECUTED
MISSOURI EXECUTES KILLER MICHAEL WORTHINGTON BY LETHAL INJECTION
IRAN: SIX PRISONERS EXECUTED IN SHIRAZ AND KARAJ
UAE: CHARITY GROUP PAYS DIYA TO VICTIM’S FAMILY
SAUDI ARABIA: MAGICIAN, MURDERER EXECUTED

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