I did not belittle myself as the sister of a death row inmate. I lived without shame,” she told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview at her home in the central Japanese city of Hamamatsu.
Procedures for their executions should meet human rights standards. Death row inmates are informed of their executions on the day they are carried out and then escorted to the scaffold.
Because Gretchen Sween had less than three months to save her client’s life, she couldn’t take a single day away from her desk to drive to the prison to meet him. She instead digested books’ worth of ...