It remains unclear why some death row inmates face execution much earlier or later than other condemned prisoners. In 2007, ...

Capital punishment in Japan is under scrutiny again after the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, was awarded $1.4 million in compensation this week following his acquittal last ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Hideko Hakamada campaigned for almost six decades to get her little brother, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, cleared. But at 92 she refuses to relax, campaigning against ...

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There are only two first world democracies using the Death Penalty, Japan and the United States, but how each goes about their executions is vastly different, and prisoners waiting on death row have a ...

After spending 46 years on death row, a man was finally proven innocent and acquitted. Freedom came to the world's longest-serving death row prisoner after more than half a century when a Japanese ...