The world’s longest-serving death row prisoner was acquitted on September 26, more than half a century after his murder conviction, when a Japanese court ruled that evidence had been fabricated. Ailing health prevented 88-year-old former boxer Iwao Hakamada from being in the court to learn the outcome of his retrial, which was granted a decade...

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