The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Areli Escobar, despite support for a new ...

An 89-year-old Japanese man who spent nearly half a century on death row for a 1966 quadruple murder before being exonerated ...

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor's ...

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in ...

Iwao Hakamada has received $1.4 million compensation for police coerced confession and evidence manipulation, becoming ...

Nearly 50 years on death row had inflicted "extremely severe" mental and physical pain on Iwao Hakamata, a judge said.

He served nearly 50 years on death row for murders he didn't commit, but now octogenarian Iwao Hakamata is about to recoup ...

When it comes to death row inmate Darrell Robinson, the Louisiana Supreme Court can't seem to make up its mind.

A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder, who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate, has been awarded US$1.4mil ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...

A federal court judge has denied Briley Wayne Piper's petition to to appeal his death sentence. The man remains on death row.

Iwao Hakamata, Japan’s longest-serving death row inmate, wins historic compensation for enduring 'extremely severe' mental ...