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

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 ...

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

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 ...