Nearly 50 years on death row had inflicted "extremely severe" mental and physical pain on Iwao Hakamata, a judge said. -
Exonerated prisoner awarded $1.4m after 46 years spent on death row in Japan
Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest serving death row prisoner, had been wrongly convicted of a quadruple murder. A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world’s longest-serving death ...The Guardian - 1d -
Japanese Court Awards $1.4 Million to Exonerated Man
Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a 1966 murder conviction.The New York Times - 22h -
Supreme Court rejects Texas death row inmate's appeal over DNA evidence
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Federal judge halts Louisiana's first nitrogen gas execution
A federal judge halted Louisiana from immediately moving forward with the state's nitrogen gas execution of death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr.CBS News - Mar. 11 -
Louisiana death row inmate challenges nitrogen gas as execution method
Jessie Hoffman Jr, who would become first person state killed this way, says his religious rights would be violated. A man scheduled to become the first person executed by nitrogen gas in Louisiana ...The Guardian - Mar. 8 -
Murder conviction of Texas woman on death row for 27 years tossed by federal appeals court
A federal appeals court tossed out the murder conviction of a Texas woman sitting on death row for more than a quarter-century, ruling she'd been unjustly convicted on the basis of tainted ...NBC News - Mar. 12 -
Woman on Texas death row for 27 years has conviction tossed
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Finland is the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row
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Arizona is scheduled to execute its first death row prisoner in more than 2 years
PHOENIX — An Arizona man who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder was scheduled to be executed Wednesday in the state’s first use of the death penalty in more than two years.NBC News - Mar. 19
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