World’s longest-serving death row inmate, 88, is Acquitted 56 years after he was sentenced

  In a landmark ruling, the Shizuoka District Court on Thursday acquitted Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner. The 88-year-old former boxer was convicted of a 1968 murder in Japan. After decades of legal battles, Hakamada’s supporters secured a retrial in 2014. The court found that the evidence against him had been fabricated and
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