Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that ...

A review of Ohio's death row in wake of Missouri execution Tuesday shows 114 inmates, including 8 from Franklin County and 2 ...

In the aftermath of Williams’ execution there has been an outcry from the public due to the doubts over his conviction, ...

It symobilizes a website link url. Copy Link An 88-year-old man has been acquitted of multiple murders in Japan after spending 46 years on death row — most of them in solitary confinement.

A large, ordinary-looking warehouse in the German city of Cologne is the closest you can get to walking on the Moon -- without leaving Earth. The facility known as LUNA, which was officially ...

By Motoko Rich and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo An 88-year-old man believed to be the world’s longest-serving death row inmate was exonerated by a district court in Japan on Thursday ...

It was also the day he celebrated a rather grim milestone – Guinness World Records certifying him as the world’s longest-held death row inmate. Inmate no more, however. This week – more than ...

An 88-year-old former boxer has been found not guilty in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder in Japan, ending his ordeal as the longest-serving death row inmate ever. A ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka ...

Iwao Hakamada, once a professional boxer, was acquitted after spending nearly half a century on death row for a crime he did not commit. DNA evidence revealed his innocence, leading to his release ...

Hakamada's acquittal makes him the fifth death row inmate in postwar Japan to be exonerated during a retrial. A Japanese court found an 88-year-old former boxer not guilty on Thursday after a ...

TOKYO, Sept 26 (Reuters) - A Japanese man said to have spent the world's longest time on death row was acquitted of murder on Thursday, his legal team said, ending his family's search for justice ...