Iwao Hakamada was first convicted in 1968 of killing his boss, the man’s wife and their two teenage children. - AFP
SHIZUOKA: The world's longest-serving death row prisoner was acquitted by a Japanese court on Thursday (Sept 26), more than half a century after his 1968 murder conviction.
The Shizuoka District Court ruled that 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was not guilty in a retrial obtained by the former boxer and his supporters a decade ago.
