A Japanese court awarded $1.4 million to a man who spent 44 years on death row for a murder conviction that was later overturned, the country’s national broadcaster said. A district court in Shizuoka, a city west of Tokyo on Japan’s main island, ordered the government to pay Iwao Hakamada 217 million yen on Monday.
Jeremy Corbyn, Sadiq Khan and Diane Abbott have been urged to apologise after supporting criminal gang member Chris Kaba after he was shot dead by police. Reporting restrictions about the 24-year-old’s violent past were dramatically lifted this week after firearms officer Martyn Blake was found not guilty of his murder. But in the days and weeks
Published By: Ritayan Basu Last Updated: October 10, 2024, 23:25 IST Indian sprinter Hima Das (PTI) Hima Das was last year provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency for three whereabout failures in a span of 12 months. Star India sprinter Hima Das has received an all-clear from the NADA’s Anti-Doping Appeal Panel (ADAP) which
A man had strong words outside of the Bronx Hall of Justice when he was exonerated 28 years after ‘one of the worst’ wrongful convictions in history. Antonio Mallet, 54, spent 28 years behind bars after New York City police officers arrested him in connection to a 1996 murder-robbery. Mallet maintained his innocence and was
A “Sing Sing” actor has ushered in the “end of an error” after New York prosecutors decided he was wrongfully convicted of murdering a retired police officer in the 1990s. Manhattan Dist. Atty. Alvin Bragg announced Monday that his office would vacate actor Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez’s murder conviction, citing “newly discovered DNA evidence” that prosecutors
Before there were immigrant “monsters” to occupy Donald Trump’s hate, there was the Central Park Five. Most people know the case: Five Black kids accused of brutally raping a woman in New York City in the spring of 1989, leaving her brain-damaged, naked and gagged. Within days, police had obtained confessions from the teenagers —