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 ...

Hakamada had spent 45 years on death row, after being convicted of murder and arson, but it's now believed some of the ...

Iwao Hakamada is believed to be the world’s longest-serving inmate given a death sentence. An 88-year-old man believed to be ...

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 ...

SHIZUOKA—A court here on Sept. 26 found former death row inmate Iwao Hakamada not guilty of multiple murder, overturning a ...

A Japanese court has ruled that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder case, ...

The court in Japan ruled that critical evidence used in 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada's original 1968 conviction was fabricated.

Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in a ...

THE world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted more than 50 years after he was sentenced. Former boxer Iwao ...