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Longest-serving death row prisoner seeks acquittal in Japan retrial
JAPAN: The world's longest-serving death row prisoner hears from a Japanese court on Thursday if he will again face execution or finally be acquitted, a decade after obtaining a retrial of his murder conviction.Iwao Hakamada, 88, was jailed under the death penalty for 46 years until he was freed in 2014 pending retrial.The former boxer was first convicted in 1968 of killing his boss, the man's wife and their two teenage children.But over the years, questions arose over fabricated evidence and coerced confessions, sparking scrutiny of Japan’s justice system, which critics say holds suspects “hostage”.Hundreds of people queued in the morning at the Shizuoka District Court to try and secure a s

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