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.
ACAB
This is why every sane person should be against death sentence. Yes, some people would deserve it, but police and attorneys misuse the system and kill innocent people, which happened multiple times in a lot of countries.
If he had been in Missouri they’d have proceeded anyway