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A notorious Japanese serial killer has died on death row while awaiting execution for poisoning multiple men with cyanide to ...

As a state prosecutor and district attorney, I became keenly aware that the death penalty does not serve victims or our ...

Japanese death-row inmate Chisako Kakehi, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers​, has ...