A 49-year-old woman who was on death row after being charged with the 2009 murders of two men tragically died after choking on her meal.
It was in 2017 when Miyuki Ueta’s death sentence was finalized.
She was first arrested for defrauding a woman of 1.26 million yet ($9300) but further investigations revealed that the two men she dated had died, according to Japan Times.
Ueta was found guilty of murdering 57-year-old Maruyama and 47-year-old Kazumi Yabe in 2009. She also became the suspect in the deaths of four other men.
According to reports, she drugged both of her victims, who were her ex-boyfriends, before drowning them in the sea.
Ueta reportedly owed both of the men money, and it was discovered that the killings happened so she could get away with her debt.
The Justice Ministry now revealed that Ueta died on January 14 after choking on a meal, according to the Japanese news outlet.
Staff tried to remove the food blocking from her airways but less than two hours later, she was pronounced dead.
According to the report, a similar situation happened only four days ago when she was found choking on her lunch but it was resolved right away.
Japan is one of the countries that use capital punishment but the decision to continue the hanging method to execute convicts raises concerns from human rights groups.
Amnesty International claims that people on death row are given a notice only a few hours before the execution.
Other problems include the length of time inmates can be left on death row.
Iwao Hakamada, who was convicted in 1968, is the longest-serving death row prisoner. Amnesty claims that the trial was ‘unfair’ and that a judge claimed that he was innocent.
The son of Maruyama, Ueta’s second victim, said: “It’s been 14 years since my father died, and I’m surprised that a death row inmate died in this way.
“Since then, I think it’s been taking too long without being executed. Every day I put my hands on my father at the Buddhist altar in my house, and tonight I’d like to put my hands together.”
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