The ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka District Court brought an end to Iwao Hamakada's status as the world's longest serving death ...

The former boxer was convicted of murder in the 1966 killing of a company manager and three of his family members. He was ...

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 ...

He was declared innocent of the quadruple murder that he spent 46 years on death row for. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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

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

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 was acquitted by a Japanese court on Thursday, more than half a century after ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner hears from a Japanese court on Thursday if he will again face execution or finally be acquitted, a decade after obtaining a retrial of his murder ...

A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted the world's longest death row convict, ruling that the evidence in 1966 murder cases ...

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