Japan death row inmate's sister still fighting, even after release

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Japan has more than 100 inmates on death row and the most recent execution was in June this year, the first since 2022.
47% : " In March Iwao won compensation of some 200 million yen ($1.3 million) -- around $80 per day in detention -- and other lawsuits are ongoing. - 'Loud and clear' - The United States and Japan are the only G7 countries to retain capital punishment, and strong support remains among the Japanese public, surveys show.
46% : In Japan, death row inmates are only informed that they will be executed on the morning of their final day.
45% : "Courts are run by people and they obviously make mistakes," Hideko told AFP in an interview at a congress in Tokyo on the death penalty in East Asia where she was a keynote speaker.
45% : Recently back from Italy where she spoke at a conference on the death penalty, Hideko said her brother's case changed her mind on the subject.
44% : Hakamada was the fifth death row inmate to be exonerated in Japan's post-war history.
44% : " The weekend regional congress organised by France-based group Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) comes ahead of a global conference it is convening in Paris in 2026.
43% : Hideko Hakamada says her brother, who spent 46 years waiting to be hanged, is a broken man but 'if I stay happy and bright, then Iwao should also feel that' "The death penalty has existed since I was a child.
42% : Iwao Hakamada (with his sister Hideko Hakamada) was the fifth death row inmate to be exonerated in Japan's post-war history In his acquittal, a court ruled that police tampered with evidence and that Iwao suffered "inhumane interrogations" to force a confession, which he later withdrew.
39% : But at 92 she refuses to relax, campaigning against capital punishment in Japan and beyond.
39% : At least 30,000 people are on death row, with 47 states still handing down death sentences, ECPM says.
34% : Behind China, the leaders in capital punishment are Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
20% : Hideko Hakamada spent nearly 60 years campaigning to get her brother, former death row inmate Iwao Hakamada, cleared and now campaigns against capital punishment Hideko Hakamada campaigned for almost six decades to get her little brother, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, cleared.

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