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Iraq: Surging Unlawful Executions
Signing off on these unlawful executions will leave President Abdul Latif Rashid’s legacy stained with blood.” Given the ...
Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, master of modern free verse, dies at 92
Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...
An Australian on trial for drugs in Japan says she's the victim of a romance scam
An Australian accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase appeared in a Japanese court on Monday nearly two years after ...
He Was the World’s Longest-Held Death-Row Inmate. He Was Also Innocent.
“Conscience is the only voice that protects the life of an innocent man,” he wrote in a journal entry in 1981, when he was ...
Death row inmate Melissa Lucio 'innocent' in daughter's death, judge finds
The family of Melissa Lucio expressed hope that the death row inmate would be freed after a judge concluded that Lucio is ...
Australian woman accused of drug smuggling in Japan says she is innocent as trial begins
CHIBA, Japan (AP) — An Australian woman accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase appeared in a Japanese court on ...
An Australian accused of drug smuggling in Japan says she’s the victim of a romance scam
An Australian accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase appeared in a Japanese court on Monday nearly two years after her arrest, saying she is innocent and that she ...
Judge says death row inmate Melissa Lucio is "actually innocent," recommends 2008 conviction be overturned
Melissa Lucio has been on death row in Texas since she was convicted in the death of her 2-year-old daughter in 2008.
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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'This is the beginning': 91-year-old sister of longest death row inmate sees hope in his acquittal
HAMAMATSU, Japan (AP) — After helping lead the fight to free her younger brother from nearly a half-century on death row, Hideko Hakamada feels she and her brother are beginning a new chapter of ...