The man has spent nearly five decades on death row since he was sentenced to death in 1968. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO – Prosecutors in Japan will pursue the retrial of an 87-year-old former boxer – considered the world’s longest-serving death row inmate – nearly six decades after he was convicted of murder, an official said on Monday., in what his supporters saw as a long-awaited first step towards his acquittal.
Lawyers for Hakamada told reporters that they were “disappointed at the prosecutors”, Kyodo News reported.Hakamada spent nearly five decades on death row, and was certified the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, before a lower court ordered a retrial and freed him while his case proceeded. Hakamada initially denied the accusations but later confessed after what he subsequently claimed was a brutal police interrogation that included beatings.
After a prolonged battle, a district court in the central city of Shizuoka granted a retrial in 2014, finding investigators could have planted evidence.
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