After Japan’s first execution of a prisoner in almost three years, the European Union and other countries responded with a ...

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

While the international trend is toward the abolition of capital punishment, Japan is one of the few advanced nations to maintain the death penalty. The Cabinet Office of Japan’s most recent ...

In what follows, I want to take a look at the capital punishment system in theory and practice, before going on to analyze the state of public opinion on the death penalty in Japan today.

Why the era of capital punishment is ending. By David Von Drehle . The case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev absorbed Americans as no death-penalty drama has in years.

Buddhism and capital punishment. Because Buddhism exists in many forms, under many organisations, there is no unified Buddhist policy on capital punishment.

A man pursuing a doctorate in criminal justice when he was charged with the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho ...

Capital punishment: Man executed for 2008 Akihabara murders. The Japanese government this week confirmed that the death sentence handed down to a man who went on a stabbing spree in Tokyo back in ...

The main accused in the Kasba gangrape case Monojit Mishra wanted capital punishment for the culprits of the RG Kar rape case ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

Starting from 1962, capital punishment was applied in the USSR for economic crimes as well, for instance for "foreign currency machinations". In the period between 1962 and 1990, some 24,000 ...