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On Japan's secretive death row, inmate becomes cause celebre

News – Iwao Hakamada, Japan's longest serving death row inmate, has insisted for 40 years that he is innocent of the four murders he was convicted of. The evidence was suspect, he says, and his confession was coerced. Now the judge who wrote the ex-boxer's death sentence agrees.

Tags: Japan, Coercion, Death Row, Confession

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