One year after 13 Aum Shinrikyo executions, scant debate over the death penalty in Japan
One year after the founder and 12 former senior members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult were executed for crimes including the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway system, the debate over the death penalty remains a muted affair in Japan despite ...
Former University of Illinois doctoral student guilty in slaying of visiting Chinese scholar
Jurors deliberated less than 90 minutes before returning a guilty verdict Monday at the federal death-penalty trial of a former University of Illinois doctoral student who killed a visiting scholar from China after abducting her at a bus stop. Brendt Christensen, 29, looked straight ahead ...
Human rights group locates hundreds of North Korean public execution sites
A human rights group said Tuesday it has identified hundreds of spots where witnesses claim North Korea carried out public executions and extrajudicial state killings as part of an arbitrary and aggressive use of the death penalty that is meant to intimidate its citizens. The ...
Osaka High Court upholds death penalty for 'black widow' serial killer Chisako Kakehi
The Osaka High Court on Friday upheld the death penalty imposed on a 72-year-old woman dubbed Japan's "black widow" for murdering her husband and two common-law partners with poison to inherit money and escape debt. In handing down the sentence to Chisako Kakehi, presiding Judge ...
Death sentence confirmed after killer of two Osaka junior high school students drops appeal
A death sentence for a man convicted of murdering two junior high school students in Osaka has been finalized after he dropped an appeal, it was learned Tuesday. According to the Osaka High Court, the appeal against the Osaka District Court ruling of December last ...
Convicted French drug smuggler sentenced to firing squad in Indonesia
Indonesia on Monday sentenced a French drug smuggler to death by firing squad, in a shock verdict after prosecutors had asked for a long prison term. The three-judge panel in Lombok handed a capital sentence to Felix Dorfin, 35, who was arrested in September at ...
Asia Bibi, the Christian woman at the center of a decade-long blasphemy row, has left Pakistan, a senior government source said Wednesday, months after her death sentence was overturned to mass protests by Islamist hard-liners. Her departure is the latest chapter in a saga that ...
Canadian drug smuggler Robert Lloyd Schellenberg to appeal death sentence in China
A Canadian man handed the death penalty for drug smuggling in China will appeal his sentence Thursday, in a case that has deepened the diplomatic rift between Beijing and Canada. The appeal comes against the backdrop of Beijing's anger over the December arrest of Meng ...
China sentences Canadian to death for drug offenses, state-run media says
A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian national to death for producing and trafficking methamphetamine, the state-run Global Times newspaper reported Tuesday. The Global Times, a tabloid published by the ruling Communist Party's People's Daily, cited a ruling issued by the Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court in ...
Criticism grows over mass beheading of Shiites in Saudi, some of whom were minors when charged
Saudi Arabia faced growing criticism Wednesday for its mass execution of a group comprised mostly of people from the kingdom's Shiite Muslim minority, some of whom the U.N. said were minors when charged. U.N. rights chief Michelle Bachelet condemned Riyadh's execution Tuesday of 37 Saudi ...
U.S. white supremacist convicted in horrific black man's 1998 lynching set for execution
An avowed white supremacist convicted of a notorious racist murder — chaining a black man to the back of a pickup truck and dragging him to his death — is to be executed on Wednesday in Texas. John William King, 44, one of three men ...
Thailand's navy on Monday began towing to shore the floating cabin of a fugitive U.S. citizen and his Thai girlfriend, both prominent members of the "seasteading" movement who face possible death sentences for setting up their offshore home. The cabin set on top of a ...
