Japan surprizes death-row inmates with execution
In Japan each year, around the year’s end or early spring, depending on the prison, a handful of inmates are led from their cells and hanged.
Prisoners are told of their execution only moments before their hanging, and are given only enough time to clean their cells, write a final letter and receive last rites. Relatives are told of the execution only after the fact and are given 24 hours to collect the body.
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