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Japan says it has executed a man convicted of killing five people after setting fire to a pachinko parlor in 2009

This is the first time since June 2025 that the country has enacted capital punishment.

Ziv Stahl, executive director of Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, told the BBC that "almost no indictments are filed in relation to the number of complaints against soldiers and commanders for offences committed.

But Moczarski, who spoke German, used his imprisonment with Stroop as an opportunity to investigate a question: what turned some Germans into mass murderers, seeking to impose their “Ordnung”, order, across the world? His book about the experience, Conversations with an Executioner, was published in 1977.

A man who killed five people by setting fire to a pachinko parlor in 2009 was hanged Friday in Japan's first execution by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government, as the country faces growing calls for more transparency and the abolition of capital punishment.

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To date, twenty-three people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2026, all by lethal injection. James Ernest Hitchcock, one of Florida's longest-serving prisoners on death row, was executed nearly 50 years after he was convicted of the 1976 rape and murder of his 13-year-old step-niece ...

An unidentified high-ranking member of the “Resistance Security System,” a secret security and intelligence group operating under the auspices of the military wings of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups, also announced on the group’s official platform on Telegram, Al-Hares, that the 1 July extrajudicial execution was the beginning of a “large-scale security campaign” and that the “upcoming few days will witness the executions of others implicated with collaboration with the occupation.”