The exonerated prisoner assigned $ 1.4 million after 46 years spent on the death arm in Japan | Japan
A Japanese unjustly condemned for murder that was the detainee of the longest -running death arm in the world received compensation of $ 1.4 million, said an official.
Payment represents 12,500 yen ($ 83) for each day of the 46 years that Iwao Hakamada spent in detention, most of the arms of death when every day could have been his last.
The former boxer, now 89, it was exonerated In 2024 of a 1966 quadruple murder after an tireless campaign by his sister and others.
The Shizuoka district court, in a decision dated on Monday, said that “the applicant will be granted 217.362.500,000 yen,” said a spokesman for the AFP court.
The same court established in September that Hakamada was not guilty in a new trial and that the police had tampered with the evidence.
Hakamada had undergone “inhuman interrogations who intended to force a declaration (confession)” who later retired, said the court at that moment. The final amount is a record for compensation of this type, the local media said.
But Hakamada’s legal team said the money is not up to par the pain he suffered.
Decades of detention – with the threat of constantly looming execution – had a large tribute on Hakamada’s mental health, said his lawyers, describing him how to “live in a fantasy world”.
Hakamada was the fifth prisoner detained a new trial in Japan’s post -war history. All four previous cases also led to exonerations.
