A court in Japan on Thursday (Sep 26) acquitted Iwao Hakamata, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, half a century after he was arrested and sentenced to death on the basis of some 'blood-stained cloths' found near the site of the quadruple murders.

Iwao Hakamata: World's longest-serving death row inmate declared innocent 50 years after 4 murders

Oxford University has been accused of holding training programmes that were attended by Chinese transplant doctors facing serious allegations of illegally harvesting human organs, The Telegraph reported.

Chinese doctors accused of harvesting organs of death row inmates attended Oxford University’s sessions

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday (Jan 24) declined to halt the execution of convicted criminal Kenneth Eugene Smith, paving the way for the state of Alabama to use nitrogen gas to carry out the death penalty for the first time in the country.

US Supreme Court refuses to halt first-ever nitrogen gas execution of Alabama inmate

Nearly 14 months after surviving state's attempt to put him to death by lethal injection, inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith at the Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama will be subjected to another execution attempt.

'I’m just not ready': US man set to be executed by nitrogen gas, months after botched attempt

Alabama has received the go-ahead for using nitrogen gas to execute a death row inmate later this month. A federal judge on Wednesday rejected inmate Kenneth Smith's request for an injunction to stop the execution via nitrogen hypoxia which experts and his lawyers have condemned as cruel and experimental.

Federal judge gives green light to first US execution by nitrogen gas

United Nations experts have urgently implored the United States authorities to reconsider the scheduled execution of Kenneth Smith in Alabama on January 25. The unsettling twist in this case is the proposed method: asphyxiation using pure nitrogen, an untested and unprecedented approach that has never been used anywhere in the world.

International outcry over US plans to use 'inhuman' nitrogen asphyxiation to execute death row inmate

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