The damning indictments in two cases expose flaws in a system that prides itself on a 99.8 per cent conviction rate. Read ...

Editor's note: This is the last in a four-part series on letters that Iwao Hakamada wrote while on death row. About a decade after cursing God, Iwao Hakamada was baptized Catholic at the Tokyo ...

A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan’s ...

Un hombre condenado por matar y desmembrar a nueve personas en su apartamento cerca de Tokio fue ejecutado el viernes, ...

In response to today’s execution in Japan of a man convicted of the murder of nine people, Chiara Sangiorgio, Death Penalty ...

Japan executed Takahiro Shiraishi, the Twitter killer, for murdering and dismembering nine people he met online. He was ...

Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly ...

Japan has executed a man who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in ...

Japan has carried out its first execution in nearly three years, hanging Takahiro Shiraishi, the man known as the "Twitter ...