Japan's new justice minister Hideki Makihara has said abolishing the death penalty would be "inappropriate" despite the ...

A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple ...

The Shizuoka district court acquitted 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada on Thursday, clearing him of all charges in a retrial of the ...

Last month, a city in Oklahoma agreed to pay more than $7 million to a former death row inmate who was exonerated after ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a ...

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.

Iwao Hakamada, an 88-year-old former boxer, was found not guilty last Thursday by the Shizuoka District Court which concluded that police and prosecutors collaborated in fabricating and planting ...

Hideyo Ogawa, lawyer for Iwao Hakamada, who was recently acquitted by a district court after a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Monday, Sept.

Hakamada Iwao was in jail for 46 years for a crime committed in 1968. Then, he was pronounced not guilty. The reason?

Iwao Hakamada, an 88-year-old former boxer from Japan, was recently acquitted after spending 46 years on death row.Hakamada was initially convicted in 1968 for the murder of his boss, his boss’s ...

Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, was acquitted in Japan after 48 years in prison for a 1966 quadruple murder he did not commit. His defense team plans to sue the government ...