Posted on 07/10/2023 9:08:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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 (Jul 10).
The decision comes after Tokyo's High Court in March ordered the retrial of Iwao Hakamada, in what his supporters saw as a long-awaited first step towards his acquittal.
Prosecutors told Shizuoka District Court on Monday they would go ahead with the new trial and seek a guilty verdict, an official in the prosecutor's office told AFP.
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