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 ...

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 ...

The summer of 1966 must have been just as hot as now. I remember my mother telling me a long time ago how relentlessly muggy it was, day after day. Iwao Hakamada was 30 when he was arrested on an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...