Longest-serving death row inmate acquitted


Age of innocence: Hideko showing a picture of her brother on May 20, 2013, in Tokyo. — AFP

THE world’s longest-serving death row prisoner was acquitted by a Japanese court yesterday, 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.

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