Mar 25, Kathmandu- A Japanese man convicted of murder and serving the world's longest death sentence has been given $1.4 million in compensation. After the manslaughter charges against him were proved false, he was given so much compensation.

The payment compensated Iwao Hakamada at the rate of 12,500 yen ($83) per day for the days spent in prison for more than four decades. Most of the time he was on death row, he feared that every day could be his last.

The former boxer, now 89, was acquitted last year in the 1966 murder case following a sustained campaign by his sister and others.

The Shizuoka District Court ruled on Monday that “the claimant will be awarded 217.362 million yen,” a court spokesman said.

The same court in September ruled that Hakamada was innocent in a retrial, and that the police had tampered with the evidence.

According to local media, the final amount is a record for such compensation. But Hakamada’s legal team says the money cannot fully address the suffering he has suffered.

Decades of detention – with the threat of the death penalty constantly increasing – have taken a toll on Hakamada’s mental health. His lawyers have described him as “living in a fantasy world.”

Hakamada was the fifth prisoner in Japan’s post-war history to be reviewed from death row. All four previous cases had been acquitted.