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

The ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka District Court brought an end to Iwao Hamakada's status as the world's longest serving death ...

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 ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner hears from a Japanese court on Thursday if he will again face execution or ...

A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row more than five decades ago.

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

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

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 ...

Postwar Japan has seen four cases where a death-row inmate with a finalized sentence was found not guilty in a retrial. An execution based on a wrong verdict cannot be undone. Hearings on a ...

By Ramon Monsalve, Jr., Anadolu, Philippine News Agency ISTANBUL – A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted the world’s longest ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner was acquitted by a Japanese court on Thursday, more than half a century after his 1968 murder conviction.

Women in Japan now have an average life expectancy of ... For men, the rate is the eighth year of increase in a row. Women’s life expectancy in 2019 was 0.13 year longer than the previous ...