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Iwao Hakamata, who in a rare example is being retried over a 1966 murder case, will be given a verdict on Sept. 26.

Tears of joy were shed by lawyers and supporters of Iwao Hakamada on March 20 after they learned prosecutors would not file a special appeal of a high court ruling calling for his retrial.

Tokyo's High Court ordered the retrial for 87-year-old former boxer Iwao Hakamada on Monday, nearly six decades after he was first convicted in 1968.

Japan's Top Court Offers Retrial Hope For 'Longest' Death Row Inmate By AFP News on December 24 2020 12:03 AM Japan's highest court has overturned a ruling blocking the retrial of a man described as the world's longest-serving death row inmate, raising new hope for the 84-year-old, his lawyer said Wednesday. Iwao Hakamada has lived under a death sentence for more than half a century after being convicted of robbing and murdering his boss, the man's wife, and their two teenaged children. But he and his supporters say he confessed to the crime only after an allegedly brutal police ...

Japan's top court offers retrial hope for 'longest' death row inmate Wed 23rd December 2020 | 06:50 PM Tokyo, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Dec, 2020 ) :Japan's highest court has overturned a ruling blocking the retrial of a man described as the world's longest-serving death row inmate, raising new hope for the 84-year-old, his lawyer said Wednesday. Iwao Hakamada has lived under a death sentence for more than half a century after being convicted of robbing and murdering his boss, the man's wife, and their two teenaged children. But he and his supporters say he confessed to the ...