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Bookmark or Share- Iwao Hakamada: World's longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in ...Iwao Hakamada, 88, had spent 48 years behind bars, more than 45 of them on death row, longer than any other inmate. The ex-boxer was sentenced to death in 1968 for killing his former boss, his wife, and two of their children and setting fire to their home. Supporters of Iwao Hakamada celebrate after the verdict. Pic: Kyodo/Reuters.
- Japanese court acquits the longest-serving death row inmate of a 1966 ...Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death row inmate to be found not guilty in a retrial in postwar Japan, where prosecutors have a more than 99% conviction rate. The case could rekindle a debate around abolishing the death penalty in Japan.
- The world’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan mulls ...Iwao Hakamada, an 88-year-old former boxer, was found not guilty last Thursday by the Shizuoka District Court which concluded that police and prosecutors collaborated in fabricating and planting evidence against him.
- This Japanese man spent almost five decades on death row. He ... - CNNIwao Hakamada looks like your average 83-year-old grandpa, but in 2014, he became known as the world’s longest-serving death row inmate.
- Iwao Hakamada: Japan’s top court gives retrial hope for man who spent ...Japan’s Supreme Court has overturned a ruling blocking the retrial of an 84-year-old man who spent almost half a century on death row awaiting the hangman’s call over the murder of a family of...
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