WORLD - International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons SHIZUOKA (Japan) - Verdict in retrial of Iwao Hakamada, who spent 46 years on death row VIDEO. PICTURE. HONG KONG (China) - ...
"Two on a single day is unusual, and four on two days in the same week is also very unusual," said Robin Maher of the Death Penalty Information Center.
The case raises the specter of potentially putting an innocent person to death, an inherent risk of capital punishment. At least 200 people sentenced to death since 1973 were later exonerated, ...