Tokyo, March 26, 2025 (AFP) - Ex-judge fights Japan's 'unopenable door' retrial system

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2025-03-26

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, won compensation from Japan this week after almost five decades in jail -- and he owes his freedom to a judge with steely determination. The former boxer, now 89, was exonerated last year of a 1966 quadruple murder after a tireless campaign by his sister and others. But he might still be behind bars if not for Hiroaki Murayama, the judge who in 2014 dared do something extremely rare i......

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