Death Penalty

‘No Warning’: The Death Penalty In Japan

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Tokyo: 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 year in a retrial. Stakes for wrongful convictions are high in Japan, where the death penalty has broad public support despite international criticism over how … Read more

SC raps cops for ‘faulty probe’, acquits man on death row | India News

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AGRA: Supreme Court has set aside death penalty awarded to an Agra man who was earlier convicted for murder of his brother, sister-in-law and four children in a property dispute case in 2012. The man, Gambhir Singh, has been in jail since past 13 years. Pulling up the investigating officers, SC stated “the investigation of … Read more