China: execution of the author of the car-ramming attack that left 35 dead

China: execution of the author of the car-ramming attack that left 35 dead

China executed on Monday the perpetrator of a car-ramming attack that killed 35 people in the city of Zhuhai last November, the worst attack in China in ten years, according to state media . A court in Zhuhai, a township located in the southern province of Guangzhou, “executed Fan Weiqiu in accordance with the execution … Read more

Death penalty: execution of an American suspended at the last minute

Death penalty: execution of an American suspended at the last minute

An American with autism and convicted for the death of his daughter in 2002, attributed to “shaken baby” despite serious doubts that have since emerged about this diagnosis, obtained at the last minute a stay from the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday, October 17 evening. Furthermore, in Alabama, Derrick Dearman, 36, convicted of killing five … Read more

Japan’s new justice minister opposes abolition of the death penalty

Japan’s new justice minister opposes abolition of the death penalty

A week ago, a man who spent 46 years on death row was finally acquitted. However, the new Japanese Minister of Justice, Hideki Makihara, considered that the abolition of capital punishment in Japan would be “inappropriate”. Japan and the United States are the only G7 countries to still practice capital punishment. And it benefits from … Read more