A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row more than five decades ago.

The Shizuoka district court acquitted 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada on Thursday, clearing him of all charges in a retrial of the ...

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 ...

A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple ...

Hakamada Iwao was in jail for 46 years for a crime committed in 1968. Then, he was pronounced not guilty. The reason?

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

By Ramon Monsalve, Jr., Anadolu, Philippine News Agency ISTANBUL – A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted the world’s longest ...

After more than 50 years on death row, world’s longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamata, is declared innocent.

Nearly 200 innocent people have been exonerated from death row in the U.S. since 1976, not to mention the untold number of people who were unjustly executed. Many murder victims’ family members are ...

The death toll from massive flooding in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi has doubled to 226, state media reported Tuesday, as the U.N. warned as many as 630,000 people could need help. Yagi swept ...

A British citizen is among 37 people who have been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after being found guilty of an attempted coup in the central African country.

A bill restoring the death penalty in the Philippines, this time either by firing squad or lethal injection, has been proposed in the House of Representatives. Duterte Youth party-list Representative ...