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 ...

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 ...

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

Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, was acquitted in Japan after 48 years in prison for a 1966 quadruple murder he did not commit. His defense team plans to sue the government ...

Death row prisoners in Japan are typically detained in solitary confinement with limited contact with the outside world, Sangiorgio said.Executions are “shrouded in secrecy” with little to no ...

Japan is the only major industrialised democracy other than the United States to retain capital punishment, a policy that has broad public support. Hakamada is the fifth death row inmate granted a ...

The case could rekindle a debate around abolishing the death penalty in Japan. The court's presiding ... bars — more than 45 of them on death row — making him the world's longest-serving ...

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 ...