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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina.

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