Japanese Man Released After 46 years on Deathrow

Iwao Hakamada

An 89 year-old man has been released from deathrow after 46 years. He was wrongly convicted of murder in 1966. He will receive $1.4m in compensation. That is ￥217,362,500,000 or ￥12,500 for every day he was on deathrow (over half his life). There was a retrail and it was found that police had tampered with evidence.

For more info: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/iwao-hakamada-worlds-longest-death-row-prisoner-japan-compensation-after-release

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(on) deathrow: 死刑囚

wrongly convicted: 誤って有罪判決を受けた

murder: 殺人

compensation: 補償

retrail: 再審

tamper with evidence: 証拠の改ざん