World’s longest death row inmate acquitted
5 U.S. death row inmates were executed in one week, the most in decades
Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S.
He’s the world’s longest-serving death row inmate. A court just exonerated him.
A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s.
Japanese court acquits the longest-serving death row inmate of a 1966 quadruple murder
A Japanese court has ruled that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder case, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on death row.
Oklahoma death row inmate Emmanuel Littlejohn executed
In his last words, he told his mother and daughter that he loved them but expressed no remorse and did not repeat his claim of innocence. "I'm OK," he said in tears, strapped to the gurney.
Alabama executes second death row inmate by nitrogen hypoxia
Alabama conducted the United States' second execution with the use of nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, finally killing Alan Eugene Miller for the fatal 1999 workplace shooting of three people.
World’s Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Acquitted in Murder Retrial 58 Years After His Arrest
Iwao Hakamada, believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate, has been acquitted in a murder retrial in Japan 58 years after his arrest and after he spent 44 years on death row
World's Longest Serving Death Row Inmate Acquitted
The court in Japan ruled that critical evidence used in 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada's original 1968 conviction was fabricated.
California gang member on death row murdered in prison
Alberto Martinez had been in prison since 2010, after he was found guilty of killing a Buena Park businessman.
World's longest-serving death row inmate — an 88-year-old former boxer — acquitted of 1966 murders in Japan
The ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka District Court brought an end to Iwao Hamakada's status as the world's longest serving death row inmate.
An 88-year-old man was cleared of murder after spending 46 years on death row — mostly in solitary confinement
Iwao Hakamada was the longest-serving inmate on death row of any prisoner worldwide.
World's longest-serving death row inmate is freed after nearly 50 years
Iwao Hakamada is the fifth death row inmate to be found not guilty in a retrial in postwar Japan, where the conviction rate is over 99 percent.
Mafia member on death row fatally beaten at Southern California prison
A condemned inmate at a Southern California prison was beaten to death by three other inmates this week, the California ...
Music Industry Moves: Snoop Dogg and Death Row Records Sign With Reservoir; Edgar Barrera Re-Ups With Sony Latin Publishing
Snoop Dogg and Death Row Records have signed with Reservoir Publishing; Edgar Barrera re-ups with Sony Latin Publishing.
California mafia member on death row fatally beaten by other inmates in prison
A mafia member on death row was beaten to death by three other inmates at a prison in Southern California, officials said. No staff or other inmates were injured.
An innocent man on death row for 46 years. Is this the world’s greatest miscarriage of justice?
March 10, 2011 was Iwao Hakamada’s 75th birthday. It was also the day he celebrated a rather grim milestone – Guinness World ...
Texas lawmakers meet with Palestine man on death row
On Friday, Republicans and Democrats from the Texas House of Representatives met with death row inmate and Palestine native, ...