Iwao Hakamada

Name: Iwao Hakamada
Birth Name: 袴田巌
Hometown: Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Birthplace: Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
Pro Boxer: Record

Innocent Boxer Freed After 45 years on Death Row in Japan

After a forced confession over 240 hours of questioning in 20 days in the face of exonerating evidence, Hakamada was sentenced to death by hanging in 1968 for four murders. He lost appeals at the Tokyo High Court and the Supreme Court, and his retrial request was rejected. After a new appeal before the Supreme Court. After 45 years on death row, DNA evidence proved Mr. Hakamada innocent, and he was rleased from prison a free man after 45 years of death row, on Thursday, March 27, 2014. Hakamada survived 45 years on death row, longest on any exonerated inmate. [[1]]