U.S. to reach 1,600 executions since death penalty was reinstated
Alan Eugene Miller’s planned execution would be the fifth in the last week, drawing national scrutiny to convictions and ...
Ohio hasn't executed anyone on death row since 2018. Here's where the state's cases stand
A review of Ohio's death row in wake of Missouri execution Tuesday shows 114 inmates, including 8 from Franklin County and 2 ...
US Reaches Executions Milestone Amid Declining Support for Death Penalty
"All the data indicates that the American public is increasingly uncomfortable with use of the death penalty, yet elected ...
Oklahoma death row inmate Emmanuel Littlejohn executed
Littlejohn and his accomplice, Glenn Bethany, got away with only a few hundred dollars from the Root-N-Scoot convenience ...
State executes death row inmate Emmanuel Littlejohn
MCALESTER, Okla. (KFOR) – Oklahoma executed death row inmate, Emmanuel Littlejohn, at the State Penitentiary in McAlester on Thursday. Littlejohn was pronounced dead at 10:17am. The 52-year-old’s ...
He’s the world’s longest-serving death row inmate. A court just declared him innocent
A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted 88-year-old Hakamata, who was wrongfully sentenced to death in 1968 for murdering a ...
The US executing 5 men in 6 days. A look at the state of the death penalty
The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...
World's longest-serving death row inmate — an 88-year-old former boxer — acquitted of 1966 murders in Japan
The ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka District Court brought an end to Iwao Hamakada's status as the world's longest serving death ...
An innocent man on death row for 46 years. Is this the world’s greatest miscarriage of justice?
March 10, 2011 was Iwao Hakamada’s 75th birthday. It was also the day he celebrated a rather grim milestone – Guinness World ...
World's Longest Serving Death Row Inmate Acquitted
The court in Japan ruled that critical evidence used in 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada's original 1968 conviction was fabricated.
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Japanese court acquits longest-serving death row inmate of 1966 quadruple murder
A Japanese court found an 88-year-old former boxer not guilty on Thursday after a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, ...
An 88-year-old man was cleared of murder after spending 46 years on death row — mostly in solitary confinement
Iwao Hakamada was acquitted after 46 years on death row for a 1968 quadruple murder. Hakamada was the longest-serving inmate ...