Tokyo: Capital punishment in Japan is under scrutiny again after the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, was awarded $1.4 million in compensation this week following his acquittal last year in a retrial. Stakes for wrongful convictions are high in Japan, where the death penalty has broad public support despite international criticism over how … Read more
Oklahoma executed a man Thrusday for fatally shooting a woman 20 years ago during a home invasion and robbery. Wendell Grissom, the death row inmate, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. A prison official told the Associated Press that Grissom, 56, was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m. It was the … Read more
Hours before a Louisiana man was scheduled to be put to death Tuesday, his attorneys hoped for a last-minute court ruling to halt the state’s first execution by nitrogen gas. But the judge declined the request, paving the way for the execution to move forward. Louisiana plans to use nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman … Read more