A Japanese man who received a death sentence in the 1960s will receive more than 200 million yen.

In 1968, 32-year-old Iwao Hakamata was convicted guilty of killing his employer, his boss’ wife, and their two teenage daughters after their family home was set on fire two years earlier.

Now 89 years old, he is due to get 217 million yen, which corresponds to $1.45 million, or $25,892, for each year that passed before he was cleared of their murder last year.

While the number may not warrant a lifetime of incarceration for you and me, it is still the highest reward for a criminal case in Japan.

On Twitter, one person lambasted the amount that Japan’s justice system will compensate him as “not enough.”

A second person added, “That’s very little compensation…insignificant.”

Hakamata has always maintained his innocence, but his request for a retrial was refused in 1980. His sister, Hideko Hakamata, now 91, submitted his second appeal in 2008.

However, it wasn’t until 2014 that a court ordered a retrial, citing fresh evidence that his conviction may have been founded on falsified allegations by investigators.

While he was not convicted, Hakamata was permitted to spend his sentence at home due to illness, and law enforcement concluded that his age made him unlikely to flee.

In September of last year, hundreds of people attended his court in Shizuoka, a seaside city an hour’s train ride from Tokyo, when a judge found him innocent, much to the delight of the audience.

Regrettably, Hakamata’s declining mental health prevented him from attending his court appearance after receiving an excuse.

Blood-stained clothes, which authorities said Hakamata wore during the crime and hid in a vat of fermented soybean paste, were a key point of contention in his innocence case.

However, defense counsel and previous retry judgments said that the blood samples did not match Hakamata’s DNA.

Meanwhile, prosecutors said that the trousers they supplied as evidence were too tiny for Hakamata and did not fit when he tried them on.

Despite the proof that the senior citizen did not murder his employer and his boss’ family, prosecutors sought to impose the death penalty in May last year, prompting opponents to wonder if the system required change.

However, a judge found him not guilty of the accusations on September 26 and acquitted him.

“The court finds the defendant innocent,” Judge Koshi Kunii stated at the time.