Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest serving death row prisoner, had been wrongly convicted of a quadruple murder
A 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.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/iwao-hakamada-worlds-longest-death-row-prisoner-japan-compensation-after-release
Author : Agence France-Presse
Publish date : 2025-03-25 05:09:00
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