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

Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years. Takahiro Shiraishi had been ...

FILE PHOTO: Takahiro Shiraishi covers his face inside a police car in Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo November 2017 and released by Kyodo December 15, 2020. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS/File ...

Tiana Krasniqi decided to marry James Broadnax, despite the fact that he is on death row for murder, and has opened up about her decision. Broadnax, 37, is due to be executed by lethal injection on ...

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 ...