A Japanese court sentenced a U.S. sailor to a suspended sentence, one year to the day that his car struck and killed a ...

TOKYO - Japanese political parties are split on abolishing the death penalty, with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition Centrist Reform Alliance not taking a clear stance on the ...

Iwao Hakamata's elder sister called for public prosecutors to be barred from appealing court decisions granting retrials and ...

There are only two first world democracies using the Death Penalty, Japan and the United States, but how each goes about their executions is vastly different, and prisoners waiting on death row have a ...