Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

Iwao Hakamada, 88, was declared innocent last year of a 1966 quadruple murder for which he spent over four decades in confinement, mostly on death row.

Kuma showed them a list of death row inmates, including himself ... of punishment," which are subject to nondisclosure under Japan's information disclosure law.

TOKYO, Feb 7, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Japan's retrial system will be scrutinised by legal experts for possible revision, officials ...

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The world’s longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than US$1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed ...

In the developed world, only Japan and about half of all U.S. states maintain this form of punishment. In the United States, death row inmates and their legal representatives are informed of the ...

(UPDATE) TOKYO — The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government to pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said on Jan. 30. Iwao ...

When Chiaki Kasai set out to make a documentary about Iwao Hakamada, a Japanese man who was acquitted in a retrial of a 1966 ...

He was recognized as the world's longest-serving death row inmate when new evidence won his release from prison in 2014. "Fists and Prayers," directed by Kasai and released in October 2024 in Japan, ...