The court in Japan ruled that critical evidence used in 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada's original 1968 conviction was fabricated.
The ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka District Court brought an end to Iwao Hamakada's status as the world's longest serving death ...
An 88-year-old man who is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court, after it found ...
The former boxer was convicted of murder in the 1966 killing of a company manager and three of his family members. He was ...
Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in a ...
March 10, 2011 was Iwao Hakamada’s 75th birthday. It was also the day he celebrated a rather grim milestone – Guinness World ...
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 ...
The world's longest-serving death row prisoner has thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a ...
After more than 50 years on death row, world’s longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamata, is declared innocent.