26/06/2015 (Agence Europe) - EU calls on Japan to adopt moratorium on death penalty. On Thursday 25 June, after a new execution, the European Union reiterated its call to the Japanese authorities to adopt a moratorium on executions and join all those, in Japan and abroad, who have asked for a thorough review of current policy. “Following a period of 20 months during which no executions took place, 19 persons have now been executed by Japan since March 2012”, the spokesperson for High...