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3 days ago · After a long fight for justice led by his sister, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was on Thursday declared innocent of the quadruple murder that he spent 46 years on death row for.
The case has received international media attention, as Hakamada became the world’s longest-serving (and surviving) death row inmate, having spent 46 years facing execution.
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
Sep 26, 2024 · An 88-year-old former boxer has been found not guilty in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder in Japan, ending his ordeal as the longest-serving death row inmate ever.
Sep 26, 2024 · A man believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court at age 88. On Thursday, Sept. 26, the Shizuoka District Court announced the verdict of...
Sep 26, 2024 · 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 that evidence used against him was fabricated.
Sep 26, 2024 · Tokyo CNN — A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s. Now, more than five decades later, the...
