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A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4 million ...

Mr Iwao Hakamada, now 89, was exonerated in 2024 of a 1966 quadruple murder after a retrial. Read more at straitstimes.com.