World's longest-serving death row inmate acquitted

88-year-old Japanese thanks his supporters for helping him to be acquitted after 46 years on death row.

The world’s longest-serving death row inmate has just been acquitted

Hakamada Iwao was in jail for 46 years for a crime committed in 1968. Then, he was pronounced not guilty. The reason? Fabricated evidence. The now-88-year-old man was recently acquitted by a Japanese court on Thursday, September 26, 2024, after a retrial of his quadruple murder case where it was found that the evidence presented against him was fabricated. Hakamada, who was on death row for almost 50 years, was placed on death row in 1968 after …

’Innocent’ death row inmate acquitted

The world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been declared innocent after 56 years.

World’s Longest-Serving Death Row Prisoner Declared Innocent

Iwao Hakamata, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, declared innocent. Credit: iadMedia / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. A pair of trousers stained with blood and a confession believed to be forced led to Iwao Hakamata’s death sentence in the 1960s. Now, over 50 years later, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been found innocent, reports NHK, a public broadcaster. On Thursday, a Japanese court cleared 88-year-old Hakamata of all charges…

World's longest-serving death row inmate acquitted after 46 years

The world's longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted after it was discovered that investigators planted evidence to frame him.

World's longest-serving death row prisoner wins landmark acquittal in Japan

SHIZUOKA, Japan: A Japanese court acquitted on Thursday an 88-year-old former professional boxer in a high-profile retrial decades after he was sentenced to death over a 1966 quadruple murder, saying investigators had fabricated evidence.