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6 days ago · A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s. Now, more than five decades later, the world’s longest ...
12 hours ago · 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.
4 days ago · An 88-year-old former boxer has been found not guilty in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder in Japan, ending his ordeal as the longest-serving death row inmate ever. A ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka ...
5 days ago · 26 September 2024. An 88-year-old man who is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court, after it found that evidence used against him was fabricated ...
1 day ago · 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 ...
5 days ago · TOYKO — A Japanese man said to have spent the world’s longest time on death row was cleared in a retrial of the 1966 murders of four people on Thursday, ending his family’s search for ...
Yesterday, an 88-year-old man, Iwao Hakamada, was finally acquitted of robbery and four murders in Japan after a legal struggle lasting more than 50 years. The case has received international media attention, as Hakamada became the world’s longest-serving (and surviving) death row inmate, having spent 46 years facing execution.
