{"id":38653,"date":"2021-11-05T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/05\/japan-death-row-inmates-sue-over-same-day-notification-of-execution-report"},"modified":"2021-11-05T18:37:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T09:37:23","slug":"japan-death-row-inmates-sue-over-same-day-notification-of-execution-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38653","title":{"rendered":"Death row inmates sue over Japan\u2019s brief notice of execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer for two prisoners criticises \u2018inhumane\u2019 practice of giving  only a few hours warning of hanging<\/p>\n<p>Two death row inmates in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> are suing the government, claiming that the practice of not informing inmates of the time of their execution until only hours before they are hanged is \u201cinhumane\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In what is believed to be the first legal challenge of its kind, the prisoners have demanded changes to the procedure and \u00a522m (\u00a3143,000) in compensation, in a suit filed with a district court in Osaka.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/05\/japan-death-row-inmates-sue-over-same-day-notification-of-execution-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer for two prisoners criticises \u2018inhumane\u2019 practice of giving  only a few hours warning of hangingTwo death row inmates in Japan are suing the government, claiming that the practice of not informing inmates of the time of their execution until only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1038,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-capital-punishment","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38681,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38653\/revisions\/38681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}