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At 88, World’s Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Faces Retrial Verdict in Japan

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Shizuoka, Japan – Iwao Hakamada, an 88-year-old former boxer, finds himself once again at the center of a legal and humanitarian drama as he awaits a crucial retrial verdict in the coming weeks. Hakamada has spent more than half a century on death row under a murder conviction, holding the grim title of the world’s … Read more

Botched: Execution of Longest-Serving Inmate in Idaho Called Off Due to Failed Lethal Injection

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Boise, Idaho – The scheduled execution of Thomas Eugene Creech, one of the longest-serving death row inmates in Idaho, was unexpectedly halted after prison officials encountered difficulties with the administration of his lethal injection. Creech, who has been convicted of five murders and is suspected of several more, was set to be executed at a … Read more