Japan. Man who spent more years in the death corridor and was acquitted in 2024 receives millionaire compensation – Observer

After spending 47 years in the death corridor, Iwao Hakamada, 89, was declared innocent last year by Japanese court and will now receive 76 euros for each day that was detained – which corresponds to compensation of almost 1.3 million euros.

Iwao Hakamada, former boxer, was sentenced to death in 1968 for murder of a family And he remained in prison until 2014 – this year the court ruling was reversed due to the doubts that the court had about the veracity of the evidence, which led to a new trial (something unusual in Japan, where 99% of cases result in convictions).

In the new trial, announced in September 2024 at the Shizuoka Court in Tokyo, the judge acknowledged that the police adulted the evidence that supported the accusation. According to CNN, an DNA test proved that the blood-filled clothes used to condemn it were put on the scene long after the crime had occurred.

Japan. The prisoner who was the most time in the death corridor was acquitted, almost 60 years after the sentence

The prisoner who was in the death corridor was convicted of four homicides – from the owner of the factory where he worked, his wife and two children – and the subsequent fire of the house in June 1966. Initially, Hakamada confessed the accusations that he was targeted, but then changed his statement, claiming that the police forced him to confess the crime through the crime through the crime assault e threat.

According to The Guardian, Iwao Hakamada lawyers argued that the 47 -year -old has been waiting for execution affected mental health, “living in a fantasy world“.

Last year, Hakamada’s sister, Hideko, who had long been fighting for liberation, told CNN that the decades of arrest had caused irreversible damage to her brother’s mental health. “Sometimes you smile happily, but that’s when delirious. We have not even discussed the trial with Iwao, because of its inability to recognize reality, ”confessed Hideko.

The judge agreed with the arguments and the Japanese government is now in charge of paying compensation – the higher value already granted by errors in a conviction in Japan.