Death penalty debate intensifies as Tennessee set to resume executions with new drug
Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...
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Japan grants $1.4m to record-breaking death row inmate
Japan has awarded a wrongly convicted man who was on death row for close to half a century compensation of 217 million yen ...
Louisiana death row killer Jessie Hoffman becomes state’s first nitrogen gas execution
Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...
Agence France-Presse on MSN2h
Japan awards longest-serving death row inmate $1.4 million
A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4 million ...
He spent 47 years on Japan’s death row – and got US$1.5 million in compensation
Former boxer Iwao Hakamada, 89, was exonerated of a 1966 quadruple murder. He received US$83 for each day he wrongly spent in ...
Judge denies petition to appeal death penalty for only inmate on South Dakota's death row
A federal court judge has denied Briley Wayne Piper's petition to to appeal his death sentence. The man remains on death row.
Louisiana death row inmate seeks last-minute court ruling to halt nitrogen gas execution
On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...
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SD Death Row Inmate Loses Bid To Link US Supreme Court Bureaucracy Ruling To His Case
A U.S. Supreme Court case on regulatory rulemaking doesn’t give South Dakota’s only death row inmate a chance to renew and re ...
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Vietnam death row tycoon begins appeal in US$17.7 billion money-laundering case
HO CHI MINH CITY] The appeal of a Vietnamese property tycoon convicted of money laundering began on Tuesday, three months ...
FOX 7 Austin on MSN16h
Supreme Court rejects appeal of Texas death row inmate convicted of stabbing Austin teen
The United States Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate convicted of sexually assaulting and ...
The Supreme Court rejects a Texas death row inmate's appeal
The justices left in place a Texas appeals court ruling that upheld the murder conviction and death sentence for Areli ...
Khaleej Times on MSN3h
Japan awards longest-serving death row inmate US$1.4mil
TOKYO : A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded US$1.4 million in compensation, an official said Tuesday.