An 88-year-better man who is the world’s extfinishedest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court.
Iwao Hakamada, who has been on death row for more than half a century, was establish at fault in 1968 of ending his boss, the man’s wife and their two teenage children.
He was recently granted a retrial amid suspicions that allotigators may have set upted evidence that led to his conviction for quadruple killing.
The verdict transports to an end one of Japan’s extfinishedest and most well-comprehendn lhorrible sagas.
In 2014, Hakamada was freed from jail and granted a retrial by a Japanese court, after defence lawyers showed that DNA from blood stains establish on cloleang alleged to have been worn by the ender did not align his own.
Since then he has been living under the attfinish of his sister, due to his deteriorated mental state.
Proextfinisheded lhorrible persistings unbenevolentt that it took until last year for that retrial to commence – and until Thursday morning for the courts to proclaim whether Hakamada would be evidented of the indicts, or hanged.
Hakamada is only the fifth death row inmate to be granted a retrial in the country’s post-war history.
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