Japan death row inmates near 100 amid crime fears
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Death row inmate Yoshio Fujinami had hoped his execution would be the last carried out in Japan.
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Even though more countries are renouncing the death penalty, more people were put to death last year &#151; 5,628 &#151; than in the past two years, an anti-death penalty group reported Thursday.
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Japan&#39;s prefecture of Niigata, struck on Saturday by the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake since 1995, was rocked by fresh tremors strong enough to sway buildings in Tokyo, more than 100 miles away.
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The number of prisoners in England and Wales reaches a record high of 81,135 inmates.
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NAGAOKA, Japan  - More than 100,000 exhausted  survivors of Japan's deadliest earthquake in a decade huddled  in makeshift shelters for a third day on Tuesday as rain  threatened to trigger more landslides and hamper relief  efforts.
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Crimes by older people in Japan jumped threefold this year compared with a decade ago, domestic media reported on Friday.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Imprisoned gang members enraged by a tough new anti-crime law rioted and seized about 100 hostages at two Salvadoran prisons Thursday.
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Japan executed Friday three prisoners on death row, the Justice Ministry announced.
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Japan&#39;s lower house passed bills on  Friday that would allow crime victims and their families to  question the accused and recommend sentences, a move critics  fear could turn the courtroom into a theatre of vengeance.
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The number of Japanese who killed  themselves edged down last year but stayed above 30,000 as it  has for nearly a decade, with suicides among the elderly rising  to account for more than a third of the total, police said on  Thursday.
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There are not too many ex-prisoners whose arrival in a room brings 250 journalists to their feet in a standing ovation. And there are not too many 86-year-olds who can summon a supergroup of some of the world&#39;s
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Japan hangs three prisoners in the country's second round of executions in less than two months.
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More than 100 US death row inmates have been exonerated since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, and many of the prisoners were freed thanks to the emergence DNA technology, according to a report.
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Standing on the roof of California's death row, Warden Jill Brown looks down at the exercise yards and sees troubling possibilities. An old masonry wall with razor wire on top and a strip of grass are practically all that stand between condemned men and the San Francisco Bay.
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More than 100 prisoners escaped from a state penitentiary early Friday after hundreds of inmates overpowered guards with knives and bats. Police quickly recaptured most of the men.
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Japan on Tuesday hanged a man convicted  of stabbing to death eight elementary school children in a  rampage that shocked the nation and severely shook its sense of  security, media said.
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Children as young as 11 who have committed a crime could be sent to reformatories under a Japanese law enacted on Friday, part of a trend toward stiffer penalties reflecting growing angst about grisly crime.