Quotes
The thought of a noose around my mom's neck, even as she insists on her innocence, terrifies me so much my hands shake,
Koji said at his minimal-style apartment in Wakayama Prefecture I'm nearly 80 though -- my body is reaching its limit,
said Kenji, who uses a wheelchair after a brain haemorrhage Getting married, having kids and building a house, you know, ordinary happiness."
Koji, whose first name is a pseudonym, sometimes imagines what life could have been That would cause a major loss of trust in our criminal judiciary,
she told a justice ministry panel All I want is the truth, and a retrial is the only way to get it,
the 37-year-old truck driver said Thanks to you, I have survived my 26 years of life here,
I'm not the one who actually killed him, but I ordered his death nonetheless
Many judges prioritize efficiently solving ongoing criminal cases, because that's often a barometer of their competence
Had they been executed, that would've been an irrevocable catastrophe,
Retrial is supposed to be the last possible measure to save the wrongfully incarcerated, but the system is not functioning as it should,
Murayama told AFP in an interview last month The death penalty involves the state power murdering a defenseless human being. Should we really accept that as a society
the judge-turned-lawyer said It's extremely unlikely that prosecutors give away evidence voluntarily
I was once part of that system. And now that I learned what it's really like, it's my responsibility to fix it,
