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

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29 June 201815 November 2021

Evidence against a death row inmate in Japan is shaky, but retrial is unlikely because it would damage the Japanese criminal justice system’s image of infallibility and provide an opportunity for abolitionists,…Read More >

12 years without an execution: Is Zimbabwe ready to abolish the death penalty?

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23 May 201815 November 2021

Dr Mai Sato has just published a report examining Zimbabwean citizens’ attitudes towards the death penalty in their country which concludes that public opinion needn’t pose a barrier to its…Read More >

Aum Shinrikyo subway sarin attack: Japanese cult members await execution two decades on

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23 March 201815 November 2021

Since the 1997 Tokyo subway attack with sarin nerve agent, Japan’s punitive criminal justice system has increasingly revolved around fear and retribution. The international community will be keeping a close…Read More >

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