Death Penalty News

Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, was handed the death penalty on Dec. 15 over a 2017 serial murder case in the Kanagawa prefecture city of Zama. The bodies of nine men and women were found in his apartment, and he was tried for robbery, forcible sexual intercourse and murder, among other crimes. On the morning of Dec. 16, Shiraishi spoke with a Mainichi Shimbun reporter in a face-to-face meeting at the Tachikawa Detention House in the Tokyo suburban city of Tachikawa, where he is being held.  The following interview is a transcript of their conversation. Kazuki Mogami: Good morning. Takahiro Shiraishi: Good morning. KM: How does it feel the morning after the ruling? TS: (Smiling) It's no different than normal. KM: In that moment they handed down the sentence, how did you feel? TS: (Stretches back, his eyes closed) Well, to be honest, I wasn't thinking anything. I'd thought I might feel something. But to some strange extent, I didn't sweat, and my heart wasn't pounding or an...

Richard Glossip's bride is 33 years younger than him - and today they were allowed to touch each other for the first time. A prisoner who survived an execution attempt because of a mistake with a lethal injection drug has got married - almost three years on from his brush with death. Richard Glossip's bride is 33 years younger than him, and admits that her family initially opposed the wedding. Glossip was due to die on 30 September 2015 - his third execution date that year. RELATED :  Oklahoma Death Row Inmate Richard Glossip Details His Execution Experience But after all legal appeals were exhausted, and an hour after he was scheduled to be put to death, the execution was called off because a pharmacist had supplied the wrong drug. It was the latest in a series of botched executions in Oklahoma, and the state has now abandoned lethal injections as its preferred method of execution. Work is now under way to start using nitrogen gas to kill death row...