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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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