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'Record' payout for world’s longest-serving death row inmate
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).
The legal team for Iwao Hakamada, released last year after his conviction for a 1966 murder was quashed, said on Tuesday that the compensation payment ordered by a court the previous day was the highest-ever criminal compensation granted in Japan.
The former boxer, now 89, was awarded 12,500 yen ($83) for each day of the 46 years he spent in detention, most of it on death row. He was exonerated in a retrial last year over the 1966 quadruple murder of his former employer and family.
Following a tireless campaign by his sister and others, the Shizuoka district court ruled that police had tampered with the evidence and overturned Hakamada’s conviction.
He had initially confessed to the crime but retracted the confession during his first trial, claiming to have been abused during 20 days of interrogation.
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