At director Werner Herzog's so-called "film school for rogues," he shows students how to forge a shooting permit. With more ...

Hakamada's situation is a particularly egregious instance of Japan's dubious justice system, where death row inmates are served up inhuman treatment, the constant shadow of hanging being the most ...

Werner Herzog, the celebrated German writer, producer and filmmaker behind “Grizzly Man” and “The Wrath of God,” is making his animation debut with “The Twilight World,” based on his ...

(UPDATE) TOKYO — A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, an official said on Tuesday. The payout ...

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Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol citing a high risk of torturous death and what they say is a history of ...

A federal court judge has denied an Alaska man’s petition to appeal his death sentence and he will remain as the only inmate on death row in South Dakota. Briley Wayne Piper was sentenced to ...

Activists against capital punishment gathered to protest down the street from the Oklahoma State Capitol on Thursday, shortly before the planned execution of Death Row inmate Wendell Grissom.