March 25 (UPI) --An 89-year-old Japanese man who spent nearly half a century on death row for a 1966 quadruple murder before being exonerated last year was awarded a record $1.44 million in ...

Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a 1966 murder conviction. By Yan Zhuang A Japanese court awarded $1.4 ...

Japan has awarded a wrongly convicted man who was on death row for close to half a century compensation of 217 million yen ($1.44m ... He was exonerated in a retrial last year over the 1966 ...

TOKYO: A man from Japan wrongly convicted of murder who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4 million in ... now 89, was exonerated last year of a 1966 quadruple ...

The Japanese government on Tuesday was ordered to pay Iwao Hakamata, 89, $1.44 million in compensation for the decades he served in jail. File Photo Keizo Mori/UPI Advertisement ...

March 25 (UPI) --An 89-year-old Japanese man who spent nearly half a century on death row for a 1966 quadruple murder before being exonerated last year was awarded a record $1.44 million in ...