Longest-serving death row inmate endured 20-day interrogation hell with no water
Iwao Hakamada, who has been acquitted after nearly 50 years on death row, confessed to the murder of a family following a harrowing interrogation process
The world’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan mulls suing the government
A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple murder — says the defense team is considering filing a damages suit against the government for ruining the man’s life and his mental health by keeping him in prison for 48 years.
Who Is Iwao Hakamada? World's Longest-Serving Death Row Acquitted 56 Years after He Was Sentenced to Death by Hanging for Murder in Japan
Japan is one of the few major industrialized democracies, alongside the United States, that still upholds capital punishment, a policy that enjoys widespread public support.
Former boxer who served world's longest sentence on death row speaks out after murder acquittal: "Finally I have won"
The world's longest-serving death row prisoner thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a Japanese court last week overturned his decades-old murder conviction.
World’s longest-serving death row inmate Iwao Hakamada, 88, is ACQUITTED after spending 56 years facing execution
THE world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted more than 50 years after he was sentenced. Former boxer Iwao Hakamada, 88, was jailed in 1968 for quadruple murder and has
Japanese court acquits the longest-serving death row inmate of a 1966 quadruple murder
A Japanese court has ruled that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder case, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on death row.
Who is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate Iwao Hakamada?
A PRISONER has been acquitted after spending 48 years in prison for the Hakamada mass murder of 1966. Ex-boxer, Iwao Hakamada, was on death row for almost half a century, after being wrongfully
Japanese court acquits man who sat on death row for 45 years
The Shizuoka district court acquitted 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada on Thursday, clearing him of all charges in a retrial of the 1966 murders of four people. The decision ended his family's decades-long fight for justice after a wrongful conviction that the court determined to be based on fabricated evidence.
After 44 Years on Death Row, Japanese Man Is Exonerated at Age 88
Iwao Hakamada is believed to be the world’s longest-serving inmate given a death sentence. An 88-year-old man believed to be the world’s longest-serving death row inmate was exonerated by a district court in Japan on Thursday, 44 years after he was first sentenced to death.
World’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japanese retrial
In a retrial that began after he spent 45 years on death row, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty of a 1966 quadruple homicide.
Longest-serving death row prisoner hails acquittal 'victory'
The world's longest-serving death row prisoner thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a Japanese court last week overturned his decades-old murder conviction.
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Japanese court acquits former boxer in 1966 murder retrial after decades on death row
Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in ...
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Japanese court acquits former boxer of 1966 murders after decades on death row
A Japanese court has found an 88-year-old former boxer not guilty of a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on death row. Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by ...
An innocent man on death row for 46 years. Is this the world’s greatest miscarriage of justice?
March 10, 2011 was Iwao Hakamada’s 75th birthday. It was also the day he celebrated a rather grim milestone – Guinness World ...