Tokyo's high court on Monday ordered a retrial for an 87-year-old former professional boxer who has been on death row for more than five decades after a murder conviction that his lawyers said was ...

Per local reports, Hakamada's death sentence was finalized in 1980 after he was found guilty of murdering a family of four in 1968 Hakamada was granted a retrial in 2014 and after years of prolonged ...

A PRISONER has been acquitted after spending 48 years in prison for the Hakamada mass murder of 1966. Ex-boxer, Iwao Hakamada, was on death row for almost half a century, after being wrongfully ...

Iwao Hakamada was acquitted after 46 years on death row for a 1968 quadruple murder. Hakamada was the longest-serving inmate on death row of any prisoner worldwide. Japan and the US are the only G7 ...

TOKYO — Japanese prosecutors said Tuesday they will not appeal the acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death-row inmate in a retrial last month, bringing closure to the 1966 murder case after ...

How can this travesty of justice ever be redeemed? Prosecutors on Oct. 8 announced that they will not appeal the Sept. 26 ruling of the Shizuoka District Court that acquitted Iwao Hakamada, 88, who ...

HAMAMATSU, Japan (AP) — Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on death row. Now that he has been acquitted she feels that the siblings are ...

Editor's note: This is the last in a four-part series on letters that Iwao Hakamada wrote while on death row. About a decade after cursing God, Iwao Hakamada was baptized Catholic at the Tokyo ...

Iwao Hakamada worked at a soybean processing plant owned by the victim. A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, closing a nearly six ...

Japan’s Supreme Court has overturned a ruling blocking the retrial of an 84-year-old man who spent almost half a century on death row awaiting the hangman’s call over the murder of a family of four, ...

Iwao Hakamada holds the most dubious of records: Convicted of a 1966 quadruple murder, he is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, according to Amnesty International. That record was capped ...