A Japanese man who was on death row for nearly half a century has been granted a retrial. Iwao Hakamada, now 87, isĀ the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, according to Amnesty International. He was sentenced […]
The US Supreme Court has said a Texas death row inmate’s conviction should be reviewed after the DNA evidence used at his trial was found to be suspect. Areli Carbajal Escobar was convicted of murdering […]
A prisoner on death row in Alabama could be executed next week using a new, untried method that deprives the body of oxygen. James Houts, a deputy state attorney general, told a federal judge that […]
A US judge has ruled carrying out executions by electric chair or firing squad are unconstitutional and amount to “torture”. Lawyers for four inmates in South Carolina who took legal action against the state, had […]
South Carolina lawmakers have passed a bill to allow inmates on death row to be executed by firing squad in the absence of lethal injection drugs. When signed into law, it will make South Carolina […]
By Tom Powell UPDATE A man known as the “Houdini” of death row for avoiding seven execution dates through legal challenges has finally been put to death for a 1982 murder. Tommy Arthur, 75, was […]
Inmate Patrick Leonard died Sunday night of an apparent suicide on death row in Chillicothe, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said in an email to The Associated Press. Leonard, 47, who did not […]
Nick Yarris spent more than two decades on death row in the US after he was wrongly convicted of rape and murder, before a DNA test eventually freed him. Nick Yarris has never had an […]
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