Japan’s ‘Black Widow’ death-row inmate dies
Tokyo – A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the “Black Widow” after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in ...
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Japan Supreme Court rejects appeal by family of taxi driver beaten by Marines
The family of an Okinawan taxi driver assaulted by two Marines in 2008 has lost an appeal to the Supreme Court of Japan ...
Lessons from the ugly Korematsu decision
Today marks 80 years since  the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of orders resulting in the mass internment of ...
New revelations in case of freed Japanese death row inmate
New revelations have emerged in the case of a man who is now free after decades on death row in Japan. Hakamada Iwao was ...
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One of the Supreme Court's Most Infamous Cases Is as Relevant as Ever
Korematsu v. United States upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The racism and hysteria that fueled that decision ...
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On This Day in 1944, the Supreme Court Upheld the Executive Order That Incarcerated Over 120,000 Japanese Americans During World War II
refined meetings in Washington while Japanese Americans who committed no crimes were languishing in appalling prison conditions. In a 6-to-3 decision, the Supreme Court upheld Korematsu’s ...
Japan's 'black widow' serial killer on death row dies
A 78-year-old death inmate convicted of murdering her husband and two common-law partners with poison in western Japan more ...
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Japanese "Black Widow" Death-Row Inmate Dies
Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)--Chisako Kakehi, a 78-year-old death-row inmate known as a "black widow" who was convicted in ...