Hideki Makihara defended Japan's use of capital punishment, despite debate sparked by the acquittal of a man wrongly ...

Japan's new justice minister Hideki Makihara has said abolishing the death penalty would be "inappropriate" despite the ...

Japan's new justice minister Hideki Makihara has said abolishing the death penalty would be "inappropriate" despite the ...

Sadly, humans eat dog meat in other countries, the AP report said, but South Korea has drawn prominent attention for its standing as a cultural and economic world powerhouse.

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a ...

The Shizuoka district court acquitted 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada on Thursday, clearing him of all charges in a retrial of the ...

Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, was acquitted in Japan after 48 years in prison for a 1966 quadruple murder he did not commit. His defense team plans to sue the government ...

A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple ...

Last month, a city in Oklahoma agreed to pay more than $7 million to a former death row inmate who was exonerated after ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a Japanese court last week overturned his decades-old murder conviction.

A Japanese court has ruled that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder case, ...

A Japanese court has ruled that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder case, ...