Japanese prosecutors said on October 8 they will not appeal against last month’s acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada. After a long fight for justice led by his sister, a court declared last month that Hakamada, 88, was innocent of the quadruple murder for which he spent 46 years waiting to...

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