Why Japan is reluctant to retry the world’s longest-serving death row inmate

Iwao Hakamada was tried for quadruple murder in 1966, but the evidence that convicted him is regarded with widespread scepticism.

Mai Sato, The Conversation

· Jul 04, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Thailand conducts first execution in nine years, Amnesty International condemns move

Murder convict Theerasak Longji was put to death by a lethal injection.

Scroll Staff

· Jun 19, 2018 · 04:41 pm

Death by hanging is less barbaric than execution by lethal injection, firing squad: Centre tells SC

The government made this point in a counter-affidavit filed in response to a plea seeking alternative methods of executing death row convicts.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 24, 2018 · 06:22 pm

Iraqi court sentences 16 Turkish women to death for fighting for the Islamic State

The country has been conducting trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained since strongholds of the terror group stared falling to troops.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 26, 2018 · 09:42 am

Pennsylvania sets February 23 as execution date of first death row prisoner of Indian origin in US

However, Raghunandan Yandamuri may not be killed as there is a moratorium on the death penalty in the state.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 12, 2018 · 11:12 am

Death by hanging most viable method of execution, Centre tells Supreme Court

The government said giving convicts on a death row lethal injections was ‘not workable’.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 10, 2018 · 07:33 am

New study: Former top judges acknowledge crisis in criminal justice system, yet back death penalty

A fascinating new study involving 60 former Supreme Court judges brings out the problem of arbitrariness in awarding capital punishment.

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· Dec 08, 2017 · 10:30 am

Indian Medical Association asks that doctors be excused from participating in execution of convicts

The Indian doctors’ body has joined its global counterpart in declaring that participating in death penalty processes is against medical ethics.

Priyanka Vora

· Oct 25, 2017 · 04:00 pm

‘In Pakistan, death penalty is for the poor’: Mother of mentally ill man on death row makes a plea

Khizar Hayat, who suffers from schizophrenia, has spent 14 years in prison after he was convicted for killing a colleague.

Iqbal Bano

· Oct 10, 2017 · 07:30 pm

Supreme Court issues notice to Centre asking for alternatives to death by hanging

A petition said that Article 21 of the Indian Constitution includes the right of a convict to have a dignified mode of execution.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 06, 2017 · 02:11 pm

Contradicting the Constitution: What India’s vote against UN resolution on death penalty means

The resolution, among other things condemned capital punishment for blasphemy, LGBT people and adultery.

Arvind Narrain

· Oct 04, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Counterpoint: The President of India’s power to pardon is not an anachronism

Virtually every modern country allows for institutions other than the judiciary to pardon people convicted of crimes.

Prashant Reddy

· Aug 01, 2017 · 12:30 pm