Wakayama, Japan, March 28, 2025 (AFP) - Family fights for death-row retrial under Japan's 'snail-paced' system

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2025-03-28

Since his teenage years, Koji Hayashi has dreaded one thing: his stubborn, once-vivacious mother being hanged for murder after failing to win her long campaign for a retrial. Left almost unchanged for a century, Japan's current retrial system is often labelled the "Unopenable Door" because the chances of being granted a legal do-over are so slim. But hopes have grown of a change since a court last year overturned the wrongful conviction of the w......

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