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Iwao Hakamada, wrongfully convicted of murder, spent over four decades on death row before being awarded $1.4 million for his suffering. This payout highlights issues in Japan’s justice system.

Dean Wickliffe, 77, New Zealand’s longest-serving prisoner, will be released after a parole hearing yesterday. He has been on a hunger strike since March 10, claiming that guards at Spring Hill ...

The payout represents 12,500 yen ($83) for each day of the more than four decades that Iwao Hakamada spent in detention. It is a record for compensation of this kind, Japanese media said.

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, won compensation from Japan this week after almost five decades in jail -- and he owes his freedom to a judge with steely determination.

Once the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, he was acquitted after a DNA test showed that the bloodstained clothing which was used to convict him was planted long after the murders ...

Once the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, he was acquitted after a DNA test showed that the bloodstained clothing which was used to convict him was planted long after the murders, according ...