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Iwao Hakamada was first convicted in 1968 of killing his boss, the man’s wife and their two teenage children. - AFP
Until he was freed in 2014 pending retrial, Hakamada had been on death row for 46 years after being convicted of killing his boss, the man's wife and their two teenage children. Japan is the only major industrialised democracy other than the United States to retain capital punishment, a policy that has broad public support.
Speaking to AFP in 2018, Hakamada underlined his ongoing battle to obtain an acquittal, saying he felt he was"fighting a bout every day".Outside the court, Hakamada's supporters held flags and banners calling for a not-guilty verdict. A turning point came in 2014 when a retrial was granted on the grounds that prosecutors could have planted evidence, and Hakamada was released from prison.
Central to the trial was a set of blood-stained clothes found in a tank of miso -- fermented soybean paste -- a year after the 1966 murders, used as evidence to incriminate Hakamada.
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