Acquitted death row inmate seeks $1.3 mn from Japan
The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said on Jan. 30. Iwao Hakamada, 88, was declared innocent last year of a 1966 quadruple murder for which he spent over four decades in confinement, mostly on death row.