Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest serving death row prisoner, had been wrongly convicted of a quadruple murderA Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4m in compensation, an official has said.The payout represents 12,500 yen ($83) for each day of the 46 years that Iwao Hakamada spent in detention, most of it on death row when each day could have been his last. Continue reading...
Iwao Hakamada, wrongly convicted of a quadruple murder and the world's longest-serving death row inmate, was awarded $1.4 million in compensation by Japan for his 46 years of wrongful imprisonment.
