ANKARA – Japan on Thursday ruled out ending the death penalty, spurning local and international pressures, including calls by ...

Citing the case of Iwao Hakamata, an 88-year-old man who spent nearly half a century on death row before being acquitted in a ...

The report noted that in Japan, five death-row inmates were exonerated through retrials, including the acquittal in October ...

TOKYO, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government on Thursday ruled out abolishing the death penalty, rejecting calls by domestic legal experts for a review amid international pressure to end capital ...

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