Longest Death Row Inmate

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  Japan's Longest Serving Death Row Inmate Awarded $1.4 Million

  A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, an official said Tuesday.

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  Acquitted Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Seeks $1.3 Million From Japan

  Iwao Hakamada, 88, was declared innocent last year of a 1966 quadruple murder for which he spent over four decades in confinement, mostly on death row.

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  Japan's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Now A Free Man

  A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, closing a nearly six decades-long chapter.

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  Japan Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For World's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate

  Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday sought the death penalty in the retrial of a man reputed to have been the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until his release in 2014, local media reported.

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  Japan Court Reverses Ruling That Freed 'Longest-Serving' Death Row Inmate

  A Japanese court has overturned a lower court ruling that freed a man described as the world's longest-serving death row inmate, raising the prospect that the 82-year-old could eventually be imprisoned again