World’s longest-serving death row inmate

Japan - Iwao Hakamada (born on March 10, 1936) is a former Japanese professional boxer, who is officially the longest serving death row inmate. He was sentenced to death for a June 10, 1966 mass murder. However, he is also suspected to be falsely charged and has not been executed.

On August 18, 1966, Hakamada was arrested for killing four people. On September 11, 1968, the Shizuoka District Court sentenced him to death. The Supreme Court of Japan upheld his death sentence on November 19, 1980. However, it has been suggested that he was falsely charged. The physical evidence was changed from pyjamas to clothes and the clothes did not fit him.

On 14 March 2012 a blood sample was taken from Hakamada for a more accurate DNA test to compare with the blood sample on the shoulder of the T-shirt found among the aforementioned clothes, blood which has been argued to be that of the attacker, and had already been shown to be unlikely to be that of any of the victims.

As of 2013, Hakamada (77) has been on death row, in solitary confinement for 44 years and was certified by Guinness World Records on the 10th March 2011 as being the world’s longest-serving death row inmate.

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