Justice Delayed: Japanese Man Acquitted After 47 Years on Death Row Gets $1.45 Million Payout
Iwao Hakamata, Japan’s longest-serving death row inmate, wins historic compensation for enduring ‘extremely severe’ mental and physical suffering.
A Japanese man who spent almost five decades on death row before he was acquitted of a murder charge has received a modest payout for his troubles — $1.45 million, or about $85 for each day he spent behind bars.
Iwao Hakamata, 89, was known as death row’s longest surviving inmate until he was acquitted for a retrial last year after being found guilty in 1968 of killing his boss along with the boss’s wife and two children, according to a report from BBC News.
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