On the eve of a visit by Pope Francis to Japan, activists called Friday on the government to declare a moratorium on executions as part of an Olympic truce to mark Tokyo 2020. The pope is expected to ...

Oct. 14 (UPI) --A Japanese court on Tuesday gave the death penalty to a 34-year-old man who killed four people, including two police officers. Masanori Aoki was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 14 (UPI) --A Japanese court on Tuesday gave the death penalty to a 34-year-old man who killed four people, including two ...