Japan court acquits world’s longest-serving death row prisoner

Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner, was acquitted by a Japanese court on Thursday, more than 50 years after his 1968 murder conviction. The Shizuoka District Court ruled the 88-year-old was not guilty in a retrial initiated by Hakamada and his supporters a decade ago. “The court finds the defendant innocent,” declared Judge [...]The post Japan court acquits world’s longest-serving death row prisoner appeared first on Latest Nigeria News | Top Stories from Ripples Nigeria.

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