Yoko Kamikawa, who became justice minister in Thursday's Cabinet shake-up, said she will "act carefully and strictly as required by the law" regarding capital punishment, respecting the sentences handed down by courts. "The death penalty is an extremely serious punishment that ends a person's life, ...
Amnesty International protests the hanging of two convicted murderers, bringing the number of executions to 19 since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned to power in 2012.
Prosecutors on Thursday demanded capital punishment for a Japanese man who allegedly plotted the murders of two compatriots in Manila in 2014 and 2015 in order to collect insurance payouts. In their closing argument at the Kofu District Court in Yamanashi Prefecture, prosecutors maintained Toshihiko ...
A 68-year-old death-row inmate convicted of serial bombings at companies in 1974 and 1975 has died of multiple myeloma at the Tokyo detention house, the Justice Ministry said Wednesday. Masashi Daidoji, a member of the extremist Higashi Ajia Hannichi Buso Sensen (East Asia Anti-Japan Armed ...
Gaza's ruling Hamas movement delivered death sentences on Sunday to three Palestinians it ruled had taken part in what it said was an Israeli-directed assassination of one of the Islamist group's senior commanders. A Hamas security court said the three men had confessed to the ...
A referendum on restoring the death penalty in Turkey would constitute a break with European values, the French president's office warned Monday. "The organization of a referendum on the death penalty would obviously be a break with (the) values and engagements" accepted by Turkey when ...
A 42-year-old man has been sentenced to death for killing five people on Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture in 2015. Tatsuhiko Hirano's mental condition was "normal" when he carried out the killings, Presiding Judge Hidenori Nagai said Wednesday in handing down the ruling at the ...
A human rights watchdog on Thursday accused the police in the Philippines of falsifying evidence to justify unlawful killings in the government's war on drugs that has caused more than 7,000 deaths, and pointed the finger at President Rodrigo Duterte as being ultimately responsible. Human ...
Thai officials convicted in corruption cases involving more than 1 billion baht ($28 million) could face the death penalty under a proposal approved Monday by the military-appointed National Reform Steering Committee. Analysts say such a stern punishment for all forms of graft was a further ...
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 ...
The European Union called on Japan on Monday to abolish the death penalty, saying "it is a key priority of our external human rights policy" to work toward its universal elimination to protect human dignity. "As friends, we have an obligation to speak up. Application ...
A Chinese man who killed a village official after his home was forcibly demolished was executed on Tuesday, a court said, despite a public outcry over his condemnation. Jia Jinglong shot dead his village chief with a nail gun in the northern province of Hebei ...
