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

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.

A murder saga which gripped Japan's public and bought scrutiny on the legal system, which allows for capital punishment.

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

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

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 ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, was acquitted on Thursday, over 50 years after his murder ...

A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted the world's longest death row convict, ruling that the evidence in 1966 murder cases ...

An 88-year-old man who is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court. Iwao Hakamada, ...

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

Iwao Hakamada, Japan's longest-serving death row inmate, was acquitted of a 1966 quadruple murder after spending 45 years on ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner was acquitted by a Japanese court on Thursday, more than half a century after ...