According to records, the average age death row inmates are sentenced to die is 27. As of August 2024, a total of 1,413 ...

EXCLUSIVE: A Texas death row inmate is scheduled to be executed next week for his conviction of killing his 2-year-old daughter in 2002, but his lawyer argues that not only is her client innocent ...

Hannah Jewell writes The 7, The Washington Post’s morning briefing, which is available each weekday from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Eastern time on mobile, desktop and inboxes. Hannah Jewell was ...

After Republican Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond took office in 2023, he reviewed the state’s death row cases, and concluded that Glossip did not receive a fair trial either of the ...

A Japanese court ruled Thursday that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on death row.

The average age death row inmates are sentenced to die is 27. As of August 2024, a total of 1,413 people had been executed by lethal injection in the United States since 1976, making lethal ...

Garon Jewell, 20, was formally acquitted of his part in the incident after the prosecution offered no evidence during the trial. The fight broke out after a row between two groups inside the club ...

A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s. Now, more than five decades later, the world’s longest ...

For many, a death sentence means a double punishment. People on death row can spend decades locked alone in a tiny, cement room before they are ever strapped to an execution gurney. We know that the ...

It symobilizes a website link url. Copy Link An 88-year-old man has been acquitted of multiple murders in Japan after spending 46 years on death row — most of them in solitary confinement.

March 10, 2011 was Iwao Hakamada’s 75th birthday. It was also the day he celebrated a rather grim milestone – Guinness World Records certifying him as the world’s longest-held death row inmate. Inmate ...

WASHINGTON − Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, whose request for a new trial will be heard at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, has received nine execution dates and eaten his “last ...