A 90-year-old triple murderer, reportedly the oldest prisoner on death row, has choked to death on his own vomit at a prison in Fukuoka Prefecture, the government said Monday. Takeshige Hamada was convicted of killing three people in the prefecture for insurance money over a ...
A 29-year-old man on death row for the 2010 murder of his wife, baby and mother-in-law in Miyazaki Prefecture is seeking a retrial based on a plea for leniency from a member of the victims' family, his lawyer said Monday. The lawyer, Tomohiro Kurohara, said ...
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 ...
Last week, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced his plans to reinstate the death penalty, which was abolished in his country in 2006. Duterte says he believes in retribution: If you kill someone, you deserve to die. Some people are shocked by this rationale, but they ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a death-row inmate in a ruling warning of the hazards of judicial bias, slamming Pennsylvania's former chief justice for not stepping aside in a murder case in which he earlier had served as a prosecutor. The court's ...
Two death row inmates were hanged Friday morning, according to the Justice Ministry, bringing to 16 the number of executions carried out under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration since taking power in 2012. The two prisoners were Yasutoshi Kamata, 75, and Junko Yoshida, 56. Yoshida ...
The executions cast a spotlight on the moral and emotional burden of nonprofessionals being asked to hand down death sentences.
For death-row inmates in Japan, contact with the outside world through visits and the exchange of letters makes life worth living, if only for another day, as they reflect on their crimes or pursue the possibility of retrials. As one might expect, a questionnaire survey ...
Sunday's death of a death row inmate who had petitioned for decades for a retrial over his conviction in a 1961 murder case underscored the need to revamp the country's retrial system, according to lawyer Yuichi Kaido. "The case had a chance of a retrial ...
Three years after Connecticut abolished the death penalty for any future crimes, the state's highest court on Thursday spared the lives of all 12 men who were already on death row when the law took effect, saying it would be unconstitutional to execute them. "There ...
A woman who spent more than two decades on death row for her 4-year-old son's killing saw her murder charge dismissed Monday, bringing an end to a controversial case that relied almost entirely on the work of a detective with a long history of ...
Lawyers for two Australians facing execution in Indonesia on drug smuggling charges said Monday they plan to challenge the president's rejection of their clemency appeals as a last resort. Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, are among nine Australians who were arrested in 2005 ...
