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 ...

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 ...

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

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

After more than 50 years on death row, world’s longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamata, is declared innocent.

The world's longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted after it was discovered that investigators planted evidence ...

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

Human rights groups call for the end of the death penalty in Japan after Iwao Hakamada, who spent 45 years in solitary confinement on death row, is found to have been wrongfully convicted of murder.

In Japan, the business community sees election-year politics at play. President Joe Biden is preparing to formally block the proposed takeover of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel, two people familiar ...

Nearly 200 innocent people have been exonerated from death row in the U.S. since 1976, not to mention the untold number of people who were unjustly executed. Many murder victims’ family members are ...

State-run media in Vietnam say 254 people have been confirmed dead and 82 are missing after Typhoon Yagi made landfall a week ago. The powerful storm battered the country's north, triggering ...