Sister of Japan's longest-serving death row inmate fights on

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Hideko, recently returned from speaking at an Italian death penalty conference, said her brother's ordeal transformed her perspective.
50% : Japan currently holds over 100 death row inmates and conducted its most recent execution in June, the first since 2022.
46% : "Courts are run by people and they obviously make mistakes," Hideko told AFP during an interview at a Tokyo congress on the death penalty in East Asia where she delivered a keynote address.
46% : "The death penalty has existed since I was a child.
44% : " The regional congress organized by France-based Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) precedes a global conference scheduled for Paris in 2026.
43% : " Hakamada became the fifth death row inmate exonerated in Japan's post-war history.
39% : The United States and Japan stand as the only G7 nations maintaining capital punishment, with surveys indicating strong public support persists in Japan.
38% : At least 30,000 people remain on death row globally, with 47 countries still imposing death sentences, led by China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. - AFP
35% : Hideko Hakamada campaigned for nearly six decades to clear her brother, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, but at 92 she refuses to stop fighting against capital punishment.
23% : Hideko Hakamada, 92, continues campaigning against capital punishment after securing her brother's exoneration following 46 years on death row TOKYO:

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