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'Record' payout for world's longest-serving death row inmate

submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to WorldNews 1 monthMar 25, 2025 08:31:21 ago (+8/-0)     (www.yahoo.com)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/record-payout-worlds-longest-serving-044405898.html

A Japanese man who spent nearly 50 years on death row before he was acquitted of murder will be compensated 217 million yen ($1.45m), in what his lawyers say is the country's largest-ever payout in a criminal case.

Iwao Hakamata, 89, was found guilty in 1968 of killing his boss, his boss's wife and their two children, but was acquitted last year after a retrial.

Mr Hakamata's lawyers had sought the highest compensation possible, arguing that the 47 years in detention - which made him the world's longest-serving death row inmate - took a toll on his mental health.

Judge Kunii Koshi, who granted the request on Monday, agreed that he had suffered "extremely severe" mental and ?physical pain.

The Japanese government will pay Mr Hakamata's financial compensation, in what local media is widely reporting as the biggest payout for a criminal case in the country's history.

Mr Hakamata's case is one of Japan's longest and most famous legal sagas.

He was granted a rare retrial and released from prison in 2014, amid suspicions that investigators may have planted evidence that led to his conviction.


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[ - ] dulcima 7 points 1 monthMar 25, 2025 09:34:43 ago (+7/-0)

Article doesn't say if they found the real murderer. One is left to assume he got away with it.

[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz [op] 5 points 1 monthMar 25, 2025 09:49:45 ago (+5/-0)

apparently the real murderer got away with it. what the police did was despicable though. to subject an innocent man to many years in jail and on death row is just criminal.

let me ask you this, what good the compensation will be for him if he's old and his mind is a wreck?

[ - ] dulcima 2 points 1 monthMar 25, 2025 22:14:21 ago (+2/-0)

No, I agree, all the money in the world will never compensate someone who has had their life stolen.

I think I recall reading about an American case a couple of months ago. The cops settled on this one guy as the perpetrator because they couldn't be arsed conducting a proper investigation and the poor guy ended up spending decades behind bars.

[ - ] NoSalvation 4 points 1 monthMar 25, 2025 16:34:52 ago (+4/-0)

2571$ per month.

[ - ] Eliack 4 points 1 monthMar 25, 2025 15:01:43 ago (+4/-0)

If i was guaranteed to be locked up for 47 years, even if i was innocent, i would just off myself.

[ - ] HeavyBrain 4 points 1 monthMar 25, 2025 14:38:16 ago (+4/-0)

I would gladly give every single sen up if in return I could see the fuckers who got me in/their descendants be tortured to death.
The I would off myselfe as the shithole Japan has turned to in the time I was locked up is unbrable. (also 1.5 million wont get you shit in todays economy)

[ - ] Her0n 2 points 1 monthMar 25, 2025 13:33:49 ago (+3/-1)

The compensation is meaningless