Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Pref. – The head of a public prosecutor’s office in Shizuoka Prefecture directly apologized on Wednesday to Iwao Hakamata, who was recently acquitted in a retrial decades after …
New Justice Minister Hideki Makihara has said abolishing the death penalty would be “inappropriate,” despite the recent acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner. Japan and the United States …
BY NIGEL DUARA | CalMatters Californians have gone back and forth on crime and punishment for years. In 1994, they voted for harsher criminal penalties and a three-strikes law. Twenty …
The Bay Area News Group interviewed several families whose relatives were killed by condemned men convicted in Santa Clara County who in the next few weeks are scheduled to be …
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday scrapped a plea agreement with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, just two days after the announcement of a deal that reportedly would have …
A table fitted with restraints before an execution at Huntsville Unit in Texas (Image: Getty) Moments before her children’s killer was to be executed, the grieving mother confronted prison chaplain …
A condemned prisoner died of natural causes last week while incarcerated at California Medical Facility in Vacaville. According to officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, 71-year-old Glenn …
OAKLAND — Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price’s top lieutenant, who was one of the first people she hired to help reshape the East Bay’s justice system, has resigned from …
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A jury in Idaho unanimously agreed Saturday that convicted killer Chad Daybell deserves the death penalty for the gruesome murders of his wife and his girlfriend’s …
OAKLAND — In a ruling that calls into question numerous Alameda County death penalty convictions, a federal judge on Monday found “strong evidence” that prosecutors here made a conscious effort to …