A senior Japanese public prosecutor on November 27 bowed in apology to Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner whose conviction was quashed this year. The octogenarian spent 46 years on death row for a quadruple murder in 1966 but a court acquitted him in September, ruling that evidence had been fabricated. Last month...

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