Last month, a city in Oklahoma agreed to pay more than $7 million to a former death row inmate who was exonerated after ...

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.

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

The Shizuoka District Court has acquitted an 88-year-old man who was sentenced to death in 1968 over the murder of a ...

S/ Hakamada Iwao, Acquitted in retrial / I can't wait to say these words, but victory through acquittal has come to ...

A Japanese court has ruled that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder case, ...

A Japanese court has ruled that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder case, ...

Hakamada Iwao was in jail for 46 years for a crime committed in 1968. Then, he was pronounced not guilty. The reason?

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

At least 17 are dead and a manhunt is underway in a small village in South Africa after a mass shooting Saturday.

A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row ...

March 10, 2011 was Iwao Hakamada’s 75th birthday. It was also the day he celebrated a rather grim milestone – Guinness World ...