World’s Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Acquitted in Murder Retrial 58 Years After His Arrest
Iwao Hakamada, believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate, has been acquitted in a murder retrial in Japan ...
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 ...
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.
Japan court acquits a former boxer, the longest-serving death row inmate, in a 1966 murder retrial
A Japanese court has ruled that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder case, ...
An innocent man on death row for 46 years. Is this the world’s greatest miscarriage of justice?
March 10, 2011 was Iwao Hakamada’s 75th birthday. It was also the day he celebrated a rather grim milestone – Guinness World ...
An 88-year-old man was cleared of murder after spending 46 years on death row — mostly in solitary confinement
An 88-year-old man has been acquitted of multiple murders in Japan after spending 46 years on death row — most of them in ...
Japanese man acquitted of murders after 45 years on death row
STORY: A Japanese man who was convicted of murder more than sixty years ago was exonerated on Thursday after a retrial.A ...
Japan court acquits a former boxer, the longest-serving death row inmate, in a 1966 murder retrial | AP Explains
Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in a ...
EDITORIAL: Hakamada case highlights deep flaws in Japan’s retrial system
Former death row inmate Iwao Hakamada cuts a profoundly tragic figure in the annals of Japan’s deeply flawed justice system.