A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple ...

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. Iwao Hakamada, ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner hears from a Japanese court on Thursday if he will again face execution or ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a Japanese court last week overturned his decades-old murder conviction.

Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in a ...

A murder saga which gripped Japan's public and bought scrutiny on the legal system, which allows for capital punishment.

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a ...

Postwar Japan has seen four cases where a death-row inmate with a finalized sentence was found not guilty in a retrial. An execution based on a wrong verdict cannot be undone. Hearings on a ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, was acquitted on Thursday, over 50 years after his murder ...

By Ramon Monsalve, Jr., Anadolu, Philippine News Agency ISTANBUL – A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted the world’s longest ...