The prisoner who had been sentenced to death for the longest time was released after 45 years, acquitted in the murder case

Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to death about 45 years ago, but his death sentence kept getting postponed due to various reasons. In such a situation, in the year 2014, Iwao Hakamada's name was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the prisoner who had been sentenced to death for the longest time.

A person who had been sentenced to death for the longest time in Japan was finally released. The court ordered the acquittal of the charges, considering 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada innocent. Iwao Hakamada was accused of killing four people in the year 1966. It is worth noting that Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to death about 45 years ago, but his death sentence kept getting postponed due to various reasons. In 2014, Iwao Hakamada's name was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the prisoner who served the longest death sentence.

The Shizuoka District Court of Japan acquitted Iwao Hakamada. Iwao Hakamada is looked after by his sister. Expressing happiness over the court's order, Iwao Hakamadi's sister Hideko Hakamada said that 'when I heard the court's order on TV, I became very emotional and tears kept flowing from my eyes.' In fact, due to doubts on the evidence on the basis of which Iwao was sentenced to death, the hearing on Iwao Hakamada's case started again in 2014.