With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded, as the state parole board declined to recommend he receive a lesser sentence or reprieve.

The man believed to be the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted 58 years after being arrested and charged with a murder. Iwao Hakamada heard his fate on September 26, 2024, when Japan’s Shizuoka District Court announced the verdict in his retrial,

A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that started from an overbearing investigation and wrongful conviction that had kept him on death row until last month,