The world’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan mulls suing the government
A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple ...
Japanese court acquits man who sat on death row for 45 years
The Shizuoka district court acquitted 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada on Thursday, clearing him of all charges in a retrial of the ...
Man who put another on death row now says the accused is innocent. | The Excerpt
Robert Roberson sits on death row in Texas. The man largely responsible for putting him there is Brian Wharton who now says ...
5 U.S. death row inmates were executed in one week, the most in decades
Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that ...
World's Longest Serving Death Row Inmate Acquitted
The court in Japan ruled that critical evidence used in 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada's original 1968 conviction was fabricated.
World’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japanese retrial
In a retrial that began after he spent 45 years on death row, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty of a 1966 ...
After 44 Years on Death Row, Japanese Man Is Exonerated at Age 88
Iwao Hakamada is believed to be the world’s longest-serving inmate given a death sentence. An 88-year-old man believed to be ...
Longest-serving death row inmate speaks out after murder acquittal
Last month, a city in Oklahoma agreed to pay more than $7 million to a former death row inmate who was exonerated after ...
Former boxer who served world's longest sentence on death row speaks out after murder acquittal: "Finally I have won"
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.
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The world’s longest-serving death row inmate has just been acquitted
Hakamada Iwao was in jail for 46 years for a crime committed in 1968. Then, he was pronounced not guilty. The reason?
California mafia member on death row fatally beaten by other inmates in prison
A mafia member on death row was beaten to death by three other inmates at a prison in Southern California, officials said. No staff or other inmates were injured.
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World's longest-serving death row prisoner found innocent after 46 years of conviction in Japan
A murder saga which gripped Japan's public and bought scrutiny on the legal system, which allows for capital punishment.