World's longest-serving death row inmate — an 88-year-old former boxer — acquitted of 1966 murders in Japan
The ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka District Court brought an end to Iwao Hamakada's status as the world's longest serving death row inmate.
Japan retrial acquits 88-year-old former boxer of 1966 murders
An 88-year-old former boxer was acquitted in a rare Japanese retrial Thursday in a 1966 quadruple murder case after spending nearly half a century on death row. The Shizuoka District Court ruling said Iwao Hakamata's alleged confession was forced and cited three instances of evidence fabrication,
World’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japanese retrial
In a retrial that began after he spent 45 years on death row, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty of a 1966 quadruple homicide.
Japan court acquits a former boxer, the longest-serving death row inmate, in a 1966 murder retrial | AP Explains
Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in a retrial in postwar Japanese criminal justice.
Japanese court acquits longest-serving death row inmate in 1966 quadruple murder case
A Japanese court on Thursday found an 88-year-old former boxer not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing his long death row status.
Japanese man acquitted of 1966 murders after decades on death row
Iwao Hakamata, 88, spent 45 years awaiting execution before a court ordered his release and a retrial in 2014. On Thursday, the Shizuoka district court acquitted the former boxer. Prosecutors have 10 days to appeal the decision.
Japanese Court Acquits Longest-serving Death Row Prisoner
The world's longest-serving death row prisoner has been acquitted, more than half a century after his murder conviction, following a Japanese court ruling that evidence had been fabricated. Ailing health has prevented 88-year-old former boxer Iwao Hakamada from appearing in the court to learn the outcome of the retrial,
Japanese man acquitted of murders after 45 years on death row
STORY: A Japanese man who was convicted of murder more than sixty years ago was exonerated on Thursday after a retrial.A district court cleared 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada of the murders of four people in 1966.
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