Capital punishment
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China executes 11 people linked to Myanmar scam operation
Beijing has stepped up cooperation with south-east Asian nations to crack down on the multibillion-dollar indu…
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Exonerated prisoner awarded $1.4m after 46 years spent on death row in Japan
Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest serving death row prisoner, had been wrongly convicted of a quadruple murde…
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Foreign minister ‘strongly condemns’ China’s executions of four Canadians
Mélanie Joly says Ottawa would ask for leniency for other Canadians facing the same fateNever miss global brea…
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French man on death row in Indonesia expected to return home in two weeks, minister says
Serge Atlaoui is expected to be transferred after an agreement was reached with the government in Paris, Yusri…
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Indonesia receives official request from France to transfer death row prisoner Serge Atlaoui
Minister says request regarding welder arrested in 2005 on drugs charges will be discussed in January amid spa…
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Driver behind China car ramming attack that killed 35 is sentenced to death
Fan Weiqiu, angry at his divorce settlement, caused ‘great social harm’ when he drove into people as they exer…
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‘A living hero’: Philippines welcomes back death row survivor Mary Jane Veloso
Supporters say her drug smuggling conviction embodies the deepest fears of families in a country that sends mi…
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Kokila Annamalai, the first activist in Singapore to defy its ‘stifling’ online speech laws
The activist risks jail after refusing to ‘correct’ online posts criticising Singapore’s death penalty and dru…
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After freeing a man who spent half a century on death row, will Japan keep using the death penalty?
Police fabricated key evidence that led to the conviction of Iwao Hakamada in 1968, but capital punishment sti…
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Japanese man who spent 46 years on death row cleared of murders
Iwao Hakamada found not guilty of 1966 murder of his boss and his family after a retrial was ordered a decade …
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Man who spent 45 years on death row in Japan hopes for chance to clear name
Iwao Hakamada, 88, who spent longer than anyone in the world awaiting execution, awaits murder retrial verdict…
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Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror
Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ fo…
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Singapore executes man over drugs in third hanging in a week
Punishment for heroin trafficking comes just days after city executes first woman in nearly 20 yearsSingapore …
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Singapore executes a woman for first time in almost two decades
Saridewi Djamani was handed a death penalty after being convicted of trafficking 30g of heroin in 2018Singapor…
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Singapore to execute a woman for first time in almost 20 years
Killing of Saridewi Djamani is one of two this week as activists say most on death row are marginalised people…