Japan Awards Record $1.4 Million to Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate

World’s Longest-Serving Death Row Prisoner Receives $1.4 Million

Iwao Hakamada with a hat in 2022. Credit: Noah Matsuki Halbur / CC BY 3.0 A Japanese prisoner who spent nearly 40 years on death row for a crime he did not commit received a record compensation of more than $1.4 million (about 217 million yen), the largest of its kind in the country’s history. This amount works out to around $85 for each day. Iwao Hakamada, 89, was convicted in 1968 of murdering his boss, the boss’s wife, and their two children …

After 46 years in prison, most of them on death row, Iwao Hakamada has been acquitted of a quadruple murder and receives compensation of 1.4 million dollars

Sentenced to death in 1968, a Japanese man spent 46 years waiting for his execution before finally being cleared and compensated.

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Hakamata to Receive ¥217 Mil., Possibly Highest Compensation for Wrongful Conviction

A court decided Monday to award a man wrongfully convicted of murder around ¥217 million in compensation. The Shizuoka District Court ordered that Iwao Hakamata, who was acquitted in a retrial for the 1966 murder of four people in Shizuoka Prefecture, be compensated ¥217,362,500 as requested, an amount believed to be the highest ever for a wrongful conviction in Japan.

Longest Death-Row Inmate Gets Record Payout

He served nearly 50 years on death row for murders he didn't commit, but now octogenarian Iwao Hakamata is about to recoup some compensation for his ordeal. The BBC reports that a judge has ordered the Japanese government to pay $1.45 million to 89-year-old Iwao Hakamata, who spent 47...