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Iwao Hakamada Awarded Record Compensation After 47 Years Wrongfully Spent on Death Row

The 89-year-old former boxer receives 217 million yen for his wrongful conviction, the largest compensation in Japanese criminal history, highlighting systemic justice flaws.

Iwao Hakamada Awarded Maximum Compensation After 46 Years Wrongfully Spent on Death Row

Japan Awards Record $1.4 Million to Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate

Hawaii Man Freed After 30 Years in Prison as New DNA Evidence Overturns Conviction

Native Hawaiian Brothers Sue, Claim Police Framed Them in 1991 Tourist Murder

1996 Double Murder Case Reopened as New Suspects Identified

Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned for 16 Years Awarded $34 Million

Conviction Overturned for Kansas Man After 15 Years in Prison

Manfred Genditzki Seeks €750,000 Compensation After 13 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment

Massachusetts Man Exonerated After 27 Years in Prison Awarded $13 Million

Texas Judge Recommends Overturning Melissa Lucio's Death Row Conviction

Detroit Man Freed After 22 Years Due to Police Misconduct

Japanese Police Chief Apologizes to Man Acquitted After 50 Years on Death Row

Clarence Woodhouse Acquitted After 50 Years in Manitoba Murder Case

Supreme Court Reviews Controversial Oklahoma Death Penalty Case

Conviction Vacated for Last Defendant in 2011 Chicago Officer's Murder

World's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Acquitted in Japan After 48 Years

Japan Acquits Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate After 58 Years

Prosecutors and Victim's Family Advocate for Release of Man Wrongfully Convicted of 2009 Murder

Court of Appeal Quashes 1991 Murder Conviction of Man with Learning Disabilities

Chicago Man Awarded $50 Million After 10 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment

Oklahoma City Settles for $7 Million with Exonerated Death Row Inmate

UK Government Upholds 'Bed and Board' Deductions for Wrongfully Imprisoned

Missouri AG Faces Backlash Over Efforts to Block Innocence Hearings

Christopher Dunn Freed After 34 Years as Missouri Supreme Court Overturns Conviction

Missouri AG Blocks Immediate Release of Overturned Conviction Cases

Missouri Judge Orders Release of Wrongfully Convicted Man After 33 Years

Leonard Peltier Denied Parole Again After Nearly 50 Years in Prison

California Court Exonerates Deceased Woman Wrongfully Convicted of Murder

Missouri Woman's Conviction Overturned After 43 Years in Prison

Judge to Decide on Missouri Man's 33-Year-Old Conviction

Family Sues Over 1931 Execution of Black Teen Exonerated in 2022

New Trials Ordered for Three Men in 1997 Murder Case

C.J. Rice Exonerated and Freed After Over a Decade in Prison for Wrongful Conviction

Ronald Johnson Exonerated After 34 Years in Prison for 1990 Philadelphia Murder