Japanese man on death row for more than 45 years is acquitted in retrial | CBC News

Japanese man on death row for more than 45 years is acquitted in retrial | CBC News

A Japanese court ruled Thursday that an 88-year-old man was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing an earlier decision that made him the world's longest-serving death row inmate.Iwao Hakamada's acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court

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