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Japan executes three on death row, first since 2019: media
AFP, Published on 21/12/2021
» TOKYO: Japan on Tuesday executed three prisoners on death row, the first since December 2019, local media reported citing unnamed sources including from the Justice Ministry.
When the innocent fall victim
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 19/10/2020
» Two years ago, anti-death penalty advocates were surprised by Thailand's first execution in nine years when 26-year-old Teerasak Longji was executed at Bangkok's Bang Kwang Central Prison by lethal injection for aggravated murder.
A call for justice
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 09/10/2020
» What would it be like if you spent more than half your life isolated in a tiny cell in fear, not knowing what the future holds? That's exactly what happened to Iwao Hakamada, who every morning woke up thinking today could be his last. Hakamada, a new documentary, tells the heart-rending tale of a death row convict kept in solitary confinement for more than half-a-century before being granted a retrial in 2014.
Calls to abolish death penalty in Japan as Francis visit looms
AFP, Published on 22/11/2019
» TOKYO - On the eve of a visit by Pope Francis to Japan, activists called Friday on the government to declare a moratorium on executions as part of an Olympic truce to mark Tokyo 2020.
Pope's Asian agenda: Disarmament, martyrs, family reunion
Published on 17/11/2019
» VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has agendas both pastoral and personal for his trip to Asia, where he'll appeal for global nuclear disarmament at the sites of the atomic bomb and minister to two tiny Catholic communities that have suffered gruesome periods of persecution.
Japan court acquits pair of murder after two decades in jail
AFP, Published on 10/08/2016
» TOKYO - A Japanese woman and her former partner were acquitted Wednesday in a retrial for the alleged murder of the woman's 11-year-old daughter after the pair had spent about two decades in jail.
Japan couple freed after 20 years in doubt over murder guilt
AFP, Published on 26/10/2015
» TOKYO - A Japanese woman and her boyfriend were released after two decades of a life sentence Monday after a court agreed there were serious questions about their guilt in the arson murder of her 11-year-old daughter.
Japan love-triangle poisoner denied retrial
AFP, Published on 09/01/2015
» TOKYO - An 88-year-old Japanese man convicted of poisoning five women to rid himself of an unwanted love triangle was Friday denied a retrial and ordered to remain on death row.
Japan love-triangle killer loses appeal
AFP, Published on 09/01/2015
» An 88-year-old Japanese man convicted 42 years ago of poisoning five women to rid himself of an unwanted love triangle was Friday denied a retrial and ordered to remain on death row.
Japan hangs gangster and killer arsonist
AFP, Published on 29/08/2014
» TOKYO - Japan executed a mobster and a killer arsonist on Friday, bringing to 11 the total number of death sentences carried out since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took power in 2012.