“A Japanese court acquitted an 88-year-old ex-boxer in the case of quadruple murder.Iwao Hakamata, who spent almost 50 years on death row, was acquitted by a Japanese court. The court found that the evidence against him had been fabricated by investigators in the 1966 case.”, — write on: unn.ua
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A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted 88-year-old former professional boxer Iwao Hakamata in a decades-long case. Hakamata was sentenced to death for the quadruple murder in 1966, but the court found that investigators fabricated evidence against him.
Iwao Hakamata spent nearly 50 years on death row before new evidence led to his release. This made him the world’s longest inmate on death row. Hakamata’s acquittal marked the fifth time in post-war Japan that retrials have resulted in acquittals following the imposition of the death penalty.
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