Japan. He spent 46 years in the death cell, Iwao Hakamada will receive record compensation

Compensation for an 89-year-old Japanese was awarded, who was wrongly in the death cell on the charges of a quadruple murder 46 years. Iwao Hakamada will receive 217 million yen, or the equivalent of over PLN 5.4 million. The man was released in 2014, when he was suspected that evidence against him was falsified.

Iwao Hakamada, 89-year-old man today, In 2024 he was acquitted by a court in the city of Shizuoka from the allegation of a murder of four people. – We recognize that the evidence contains three fabricated evidence. We found that Mr. Hakamada could not be considered as the perpetrator – said the judge.

46 years in the death cell

On Monday, the same court decided to grant compensation to a man in the amount of a total of over 217 million yen, which is equivalent to over PLN 5.4 million. Thus, for each day of his 46-year imprisonment, a man will receive 12.5 thousand. Jenów, or approx. 320 PLN. Judge Kunii Koshi admitted, quoted by the BBC, that the Japanese suffered a “extremely severe” mental and physical pain.

According to local media, the amount is the record that has ever been awarded in Japan in similar criminal matters. Japanese lawyers emphasize, however, that the sum does not match the suffering he experienced. They indicate that the decades of life with the awareness that every day can be the latter, it has been very much affected by his mental health.

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Japanese wrongly convicted

Iwao Hakamada, a former boxer, is considered a person waiting for the death penalty for the longest time. In 1968, he was convicted of a quadruple murder – the head of the Miso Paste Production Plant, in which he worked, and three members of his family, which took place two years earlier. He maintained that he was innocent, and he signed the heavy testimonies under the influence of threats and beating by policemen. Despite this, in 1980 Japanese Supreme Court issued a conviction to the death penalty.

He stayed in the cell until 2014when the court decided to release him, suspend his death penalty and resume the trial, when the suspicions were taken that evidence against him was falsified by investigators. DNA tests showed that the blood on the victims' clothes found did not belong to the accused. In March 2023 The court decided to reconsider the case againwhich led to his acquittal.

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