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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PRISONER has been acquitted after spending 48 years in prison for the Hakamada mass murder of 1966. Ex-boxer, Iwao Hakamada, was on death row for almost half a century, after being wrongfully ...

The court in Japan ruled that critical evidence used in 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada's original 1968 conviction was fabricated.

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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.

How can you execute a man when there is reasonable doubt?’ Obie Alexander, who spent nearly two decades in prison on a ...

The case could rekindle a debate around abolishing the death penalty in Japan. The court's presiding judge ... A man set off ...

Supporters of Iwao Hakamada celebrate after the Shizuoka District Court acquitted the 88-year-old former professional boxer ...