> Death row inmates in Japanese jails are kept in solitary confinement and forced to wait for years, and sometimes decades, while the legal system grinds on. A prison rule that inmates cannot be told of their execution until the morning it happens means they live every day believing it will be their last.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2025/11/06/japans-death-penalty-in-the-spotlight-after-inmate-freed-from-decades-on-death-row/
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