Cannibal killer of girls executed as Japan steps up hangings
18/6/08
Japan executed three people yesterday, including serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, who murdered four little girls and ate some of their bodies. Miyazaki, 45, was hanged at a detention centre in Tokyo, Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama said. The fetishist burned the body of one four-year-old and left her bones on her parents’ doorstep. He wrote letters to the media and victims’ families, taunting police. Japanese newspapers said he ate part of the hand of one of his victims and drank her blood. Mr Hatoyama confirmed that two other people were executed, but did not give their names. “I ordered their executions because the cases were of indescribable cruelty,” he said.
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Tags: Capital Punishment, Japan