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Japan | Hakamada found religion, but then felt under attack by ‘the devil’

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Editor's note: This is the last in a four-part series on letters that Iwao Hakamada wrote while on death row. About a decade after cursing God, Iwao Hakamada was baptized Catholic at the Tokyo Detention House on Dec. 24, 1984. “Since I have been given the Christian name Paul, I am keenly feeling that I should be aware of the greatness of Paul.” (June 1985)

Tennessee death row inmate dies of natural causes

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A Tennessee inmate who has been on death row since 1983 died of natural causes Monday at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, according to the state Department of Corrections.

Officials said Walter L. Caruthers was pronounced dead shortly after 11:30 p.m.

Caruthers was convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon, aggravated kidnapping and murdering a female hitchhiker in Knox County.

He was sentenced to death on Feb. 8, 1983.

The Department of Corrections said an autopsy will be performed, as is required for all in custody deaths.

Source: WBIR, January 31, 2017

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