Three Japanese citizens have been executed in China for trying to smuggle the drug methamphetamine. This follows the execution of another Japanese drug smuggler on Tuesday.



Following the latest executions, Japan‘s Justice Minister, Keiko Chiba, said she was concerned about the effect on relations between the two countries.



China, BBC gathered is thought to execute more people than any other country in the world, although the government does not release overall figures.



The three latest Japanese nationals to be executed were smuggling the recreational drug from the north-eastern province of Liaoning.



One of them, Teruo Takeda, bought 5kg of the recreational drug in 2003.



The 67-year-old then arranged for the other two - Hironori Ukai, 48, and Katsuo Mori, 67 - to take the consignment to Japan.

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wonder why people still smuggle drugs to that area.

mama-gee:

Death Penalty, just for Drug Smuggling?

Wonder what they sentence thieves and murderers to.

a thief would get jail time, a murderer would get the death penalty (if it was aggravated murder).
only people caught with serious drug amounts are getting the death penalty. someone caught dealing on the streets of China with 10grams or so would only get serious jail time and not the death penalty!
the death penalty in drug cases is only for serious drug dealers/couriers caught with big amounts.

Hope naija drug smugglers are seeing things like this. Imagine someone caught in CHINA wif drugs