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India court orders Jan. 22 hanging of four men guilty in deadly 2012 gang rape aboard moving bus

Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Jan 8, 2020

India court orders Jan. 22 hanging of four men guilty in deadly 2012 gang rape aboard moving bus

Four men sentenced to death for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus in an attack that sent shock waves across the world will be hanged on Jan. 22, an Indian court ruled on Tuesday. The four men were ...

After global backlash, Brunei says it won't enforce gay death penalty

Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal May 6, 2019

After global backlash, Brunei says it won't enforce gay death penalty

Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah on Sunday extended a moratorium on the death penalty to incoming legislation prohibiting gay sex, seeking to temper a global backlash led by celebrities such as George Clooney and Elton John. The small Southeast Asian country sparked an outcry when it ...

Executed Aum founder Shoko Asahara cremated in Tokyo: sources

National / Crime & Legal Jul 9, 2018

Executed Aum founder Shoko Asahara cremated in Tokyo: sources

A battle kicks off over who will take possession of his remains.

Florida prosecutor seeking death penalty for youth in Parkland school massacre

World / Crime & Legal Mar 14, 2018

Florida prosecutor seeking death penalty for youth in Parkland school massacre

Florida prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz, the former student accused of murdering 17 people in a shooting spree last month at a Parkland high school, according to a notice filed in court on Tuesday. Michael Satz, the state attorney for Broward ...

Father who forgave son for family's murder asks Texas to spare his life

World / Crime & Legal Feb 19, 2018

Father who forgave son for family's murder asks Texas to spare his life

A Texas man who survived a deadly domestic attack hatched by his son is pushing the state to grant clemency to the condemned man, although it has never spared a death-row inmate solely at the formal request of the victim's family. Thomas "Bart" Whitaker is ...

National / Crime & Legal Dec 28, 2017

Number of inmates awaiting death penalty in Japan at end of 2017 expected to be 123

The number of death row inmates in Japan as of Dec. 31 is expected to stand at 123, having remained above 100 since 2007, Justice Ministry officials said Thursday. In 2017 four convicts on death row were executed and four others died of illness, while ...

World / Crime & Legal Sep 26, 2017

Iraq hangs 42 Sunni militants convicted as terrorists, draws quick rebuke from Amnesty

Iraq on Sunday executed 42 Sunni Muslim militants convicted on terrorism charges ranging from killing members of security forces to detonating car bombs. The biggest mass execution this year in Iraq came after Sunni suicide attacks killed at least 60 people near the southern city ...

Yemeni convicted of child rape and murder first to be publicly executed since 2009

World / Crime & Legal Aug 1, 2017

Yemeni convicted of child rape and murder first to be publicly executed since 2009

A man convicted of raping and murdering a 3-year-old girl was executed in Sanaa on Monday in front of hundreds of onlookers, the first public execution there since 2009. "Security was very tight, because authorities were fearing a revenge attack by armed men from the ...

North Korea conducts public executions for theft, watching South Korea media: report

Asia Pacific Jul 19, 2017

North Korea conducts public executions for theft, watching South Korea media: report

North Korea carries out public executions on riverbanks and at school grounds and marketplaces for charges such as stealing copper from factory machines, distributing media from South Korea and prostitution, a report issued Wednesday said. The report, by a Seoul-based nongovernmental organization, said the often ...

National / Crime & Legal Dec 30, 2016

Japan's death-row population numbers 129 as 2016 ends

The number of death-row inmates in Japan in 2016 is expected to stand at 129 by Dec. 31, a rise of two people from last year, while continuing to surpass the threshold of 100 since 2007. Three inmates were executed during the year, while seven ...

North Korea executed 64 in public this year as Kim feels insecure, says Seoul spy agency

Asia Pacific Oct 20, 2016

North Korea executed 64 in public this year as Kim feels insecure, says Seoul spy agency

The North Korean regime under Kim Jong Un has carried out 64 public executions in the first nine months of this year, South Korea's spy agency said Wednesday. The North, which had previously exercised restraint in undertaking public executions, resumed them after the U.N. Security ...

Travesty of justice: legal reform unlikely despite erroneous convictions

National / Crime & Legal Jan 16, 2016

Travesty of justice: legal reform unlikely despite erroneous convictions

by David Mcneill

Two elderly men fighting for decades to clear their names are poised to receive high-profile retrials in 2016 and yet their ordeals are unlikely to trigger wide-ranging reform to the country’s justice system, experts say.

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