Japan: World's longest-serving death row inmate now declared innocent
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Iwao Hakamata, an 88-year-old Japanese man who has spent over five decades on death row, was declared innocent by a court in Japan on Thursday. Hakamata was wrongfully sentenced to death in 1968 for the murder of his boss, his wife and their two teenage children. He was recently granted a retrial amid suspicions that investigators planted evidence that led to his conviction for the murders.