World's longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan

World's longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan

 

An 88-year-old man who is the world’s longest-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 found guilty in 1968 of killing his boss, the man’s wife and their two teenage children.

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