“Conscience is the only voice that protects the life of an innocent man,” he wrote in a journal entry in 1981, when he was ...

Iwao Hakamada spent an un­precedented five decades awaiting execution. Each day he woke up unsure whether it would be his last.

"If you can't see the wisdom [in the Bible], you haven't contemplated your own misery," he told The Post's Rikki Schlott.