TOKYO: A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded US$1.4 million in compensation, an official said Tuesday (March 25).
The payout represents 12,500 yen (US$83) for each day of the more than four decades that Iwao Hakamada (pic) spent in detention, most of it on death row when each day could have been his last.
