カテゴリー: Capital punishment
Beijing has stepped up cooperation with south-east Asian nations to crack down on the multibillion-dollar industryChina on Thursday executed 11 people linked to Myanmar criminal gangs, including “key members” involved in scam operations, state media re…
Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest serving death row prisoner, had been wrongly convicted of a quadruple murderA Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4m in compensation, an of…
Mélanie Joly says Ottawa would ask for leniency for other Canadians facing the same fateNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.Canada has strongly condemned the execution of four of its citizens …
Serge Atlaoui is expected to be transferred after an agreement was reached with the government in Paris, Yusril Ihza Mahendra saysA French man who has been on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for alleged drug offences is expected to return home in wee…
Minister says request regarding welder arrested in 2005 on drugs charges will be discussed in January amid spate of transfer of high-profile detaineesIndonesia has received an official request from France to transfer a French death row inmate imprisone…
Fan Weiqiu, angry at his divorce settlement, caused ‘great social harm’ when he drove into people as they exercised in the city of Zhuhai, court saysA court in China has sentenced a man to death for killing 35 people last month by driving into a crowd,…
Supporters say her drug smuggling conviction embodies the deepest fears of families in a country that sends millions of workers abroad each yearAfter 14 years on death row in Indonesia, Mary Jane Veloso arrived in Manila on Wednesday to the tight embra…
The activist risks jail after refusing to ‘correct’ online posts criticising Singapore’s death penalty and drug laws, a first in the city state under its ‘Pofma’ actKokila Annamalai, a prominent Singaporean activist, has spent years supporting death ro…
Police fabricated key evidence that led to the conviction of Iwao Hakamada in 1968, but capital punishment still has popular supportBy any reasonable legal measure, Iwao Hakamada should not have lived to see his conviction for murder overturned.The for…
Iwao Hakamada found not guilty of 1966 murder of his boss and his family after a retrial was ordered a decade agoA Japanese man who spent almost half a century on death row has been found not guilty of multiple murders, in a closely watched trial that …
Iwao Hakamada, 88, who spent longer than anyone in the world awaiting execution, awaits murder retrial verdictIn the early hours of 30 June 1966 a fire swept through the home of the managing director of a miso maker in Shizuoka, central Japan. After th…
Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activistsThe Taliban’s announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death has been enabled by the international co…
Punishment for heroin trafficking comes just days after city executes first woman in nearly 20 yearsSingapore has executed a 39-year-old man who was convicted of trafficking heroin in the city-state’s third hanging in just over a week, authorities say….
Saridewi Djamani was handed a death penalty after being convicted of trafficking 30g of heroin in 2018Singapore has hanged Saridewi Djamani, the first woman to be executed in the city state in almost 20 years, amid an outcry from human rights groups.Th…
Killing of Saridewi Djamani is one of two this week as activists say most on death row are marginalised peopleSingapore is due to execute a woman for the first time in almost 20 years on Friday, one of two killings planned for this week.Singaporean nat…