World's longest-serving death row prisoner found innocent 46 years after conviction
The 88-year-old Japanese man, who was the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, was convicted in 1968 of robbery and ...
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World's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Acquitted After Nearly 60 Years
Iwao Hakamada, a former boxer who spent 56 years on death row for a murder he always denied, has been acquitted after a ...
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Japan Acquits World’s Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate
Iwao Hakamada, who was on death row for almost half a century, was found guilty in 1968 of killing his boss, the man’s wife ...
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Japanese court acquits longest-serving death row inmate in 1966 quadruple murder case
An 88-year-old former boxer, Iwao Hakamada, has been acquitted by a Japanese court after a retrial for a quadruple murder that occurred in 1966.The Shizuoka District Court found that the evidence ...
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An innocent man on death row for 46 years. Is this the world’s greatest miscarriage of justice?
March 10, 2011 was Iwao Hakamada’s 75th birthday. It was also the day he celebrated a rather grim milestone – Guinness World ...
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World’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in 1966 quadruple murder
Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal Thursday by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death row inmate to be found not guilty ...
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 ...
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Japan acquits longest-serving prisoner on death row
The world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, was acquitted on Thursday, over 50 years after his murder ...
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Japanese court acquits a man in a 1966 murder retrial after decades on death row
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 ...
World's longest-serving death row inmate — an 88-year-old former boxer — acquitted of 1966 murders in Japan
The judge said the court acknowledged multiple fabrications of evidence and that Iwao Hakamada was not the culprit, his ...
An 88-year-old man was cleared of murder after spending 46 years on death row — mostly in solitary confinement
An 88-year-old man has been acquitted of multiple murders in Japan after spending 46 years on death row — most of them in ...