Tokyo's high court on Monday ordered a retrial for an 87-year-old former professional boxer who has been on death row for more than five decades after a murder conviction that his lawyers said was ...

Hakamada was granted a retrial in 2014 and after years of prolonged legal proceedings, it finally opened in October 2023 A man believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been ...

Tokyo’s high court on Monday ordered a retrial for an 87-year-old former boxer who has been on death row for more than five decades after his murder conviction that his lawyers said was based on ...

Iwao Hakamada was acquitted after 46 years on death row for a 1968 quadruple murder. Hakamada was the longest-serving inmate on death row of any prisoner worldwide. Japan and the US are the only G7 ...

TOKYO — Japanese prosecutors said Tuesday they will not appeal the acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death-row inmate in a retrial last month, bringing closure to the 1966 murder case after ...