World’s longest-serving death row inmate — an 88-year-old former boxer — is acquitted of 1966 murders in Japan
A Japanese court ruled Thursday that an 88-year-old former boxer 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 makes him the fifth death-row convict to …