$1.4m for a human life.

Iwao Hakamada , who spent 46 years on death row in Japan, has been awarded $1.4m in compensation. The payout represents 12,500 yen ($83) for each day of the 46 years that Iwao Hakamada spent in detention, most of it on death row when each day could have been his last. 

 The former boxer, now 89, was exonerated in 2024 of a 1966 quadruple murder after a tireless campaign by his sister and others. 

 The Shizuoka District Court, in a decision dated Monday, said that “the claimant shall be granted 217,362,500,000 yen”, a court spokesperson told AFP. The same court ruled in September that Hakamada was not guilty in a retrial and that police had tampered with evidence. 

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