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Japanese court acquits the longest-serving death row inmate of a 1966 quadruple murder

Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death row inmate to be found not guilty in a retrial in postwar Japan
The court found that evidence was fabricated and planted by investigators and that Hakamada was not the culprit, his lawyer Hideyo Ogawa said

By AP · 26 September 2024