World’s longest-serving death row prisoner awarded $1.4 million after acquittal – that’s $85 for each day

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, a court said on Tuesday – roughly $85 for each day he was wrongfully convicted.

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