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26 wrz 2024 · A Japanese man said to have spent the world's longest time on death row was acquitted of murder on Thursday, his legal team said, ending his family's search for justice after a wrongful...
26 wrz 2024 · A Japanese court has found an 88-year-old former boxer not guilty in a retrial for a quadruple murder in 1966, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on death row.
26 wrz 2024 · 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.
25 wrz 2024 · A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row more than five decades ago. Now, the world's longest-serving...
26 wrz 2024 · A court ruled Thursday that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder. He spent 48 years behind bars, making him the world's longest-serving death row...
25 wrz 2024 · Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth person on death row to be found not guilty in a retrial in postwar Japan, where prosecutors have a more than 99%...
26 wrz 2024 · Until he was freed in 2014 pending retrial, Hakamada had been on death row for 46 years after being convicted of killing his boss, the man’s wife and their two teenage children.
