Japanese police chief bows to wrongfully convicted man who spent 45 years on death row

Shizuoka Prefectural Police chief Takayoshi Tsuda bowed deeply before Iwao Hakamada, an 88-year-old former boxer, to apologize in-person for...

Japanese court acquits man who sat on death row for 45 years

The Shizuoka district court acquitted 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada on Thursday, clearing him of all charges in a retrial of the 1966 murders of...

What it’s like for Singapore’s death row inmates in the days leading up to their execution

While facing execution is a daunting prospect under any circumstances, the conditions of death row confinement in Singapore underscore deepe...

Japanese woman on death row for murder chokes to death on prison food

A woman on death row choked to death while eating a meal at the Hiroshima Detention House in Hiroshima, Japan. Miyuki Ueta, a 49-year-old fo...