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  • World’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan

    World’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan

    TOYKO — A Japanese man said to have spent the world’s longest time on death row was cleared in a retrial of the 1966 murders of four people on Thursday, ending his family’s search for justice for a wrongful conviction.     Iwao Hakamata, 88, spent 45 years awaiting execution before a court ordered his release and…