Japan rules out scrapping death penalty despite panel's call for review
The panel, established in February at the initiative of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, also said abolishing the ...
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Japan rules out abolishing death penalty despite calls for review
ANKARA – Japan on Thursday ruled out ending the death penalty, spurning local and international pressures, including calls by ...
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Panel seeks hold on death penalty until flaws in system resolved
The report noted that in Japan, five death-row inmates were exonerated through retrials, including the acquittal in October ...
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A Japanese police chief apologizes to a man acquitted after 50 years on death row
Hakamada was the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner and only the fifth death row inmate to be acquitted in a retrial ...
Hayashi rejects call for debate on death penalty at new commission
Despite the urging of a private-sector panel, the government will not establish a commission to examine the death penalty, ...
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Inquiry Needed into Japan’s Flawed Criminal Justice System
Next week , Japan’s national legislature, the Diet, is scheduled to convene its first session after the general elections on ...
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'This is the beginning': 91-year-old sister of longest death row inmate sees hope in his acquittal
Japan and the United States are the only two countries in the Group of Seven advanced nations that have capital punishment. Hakamada was the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner and only ...
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Japan rules out ending death penalty despite panel's call for review
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 ...
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A Japanese police chief apologizes to a man acquitted after 50 years on death row
TOKYO — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that started from an overbearing investigation and wrongful conviction that had ...
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'This is the beginning': 91-year-old sister of longest death row inmate sees hope in his acquittal
HAMAMATSU, Japan — Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on death row. Now that he has been acquitted she feels that the siblings are ...
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'This is the beginning': 91-year-old sister of longest death row inmate sees hope in his acquittal
(Kyodo News via AP) Former Japanese death-row inmate Iwao Hakamada, left, and his sister Hideko Hakamada attend a gathering of supporters in Shizuoka, central Japan on Oct. 14, 2024. (Kyodo News ...