An 88-year-old man who is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court, after it found that evidence used against him was fabricated.
Iwao Hakamada, who was on death row for almost half a century, was found guilty in 1968 of killing his boss, the man’s wife and their two teenage children.
He was recently granted a retrial amid suspicions that investigators may have planted evidence that led to his conviction for quadruple murder.
Uh huh. Did you read the part where they don’t have a presumption of innocence, like any actual justice system? Where you don’t have the right to the presence of a lawyer during interrogation, which can happen over 23 days at a time? Where they can do that multiple times?
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/05/25/japan-hostage-justice-system-violates-rights