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Thursday 27 March 2014

The World's longest serving death row inmate(45Yrs) to be released after it's revealed he was innocent

A Japanese court has ordered the release of the world’s longest serving death row inmate because the evidence was likely made up by investigators.
According to Dailymail,Iwao Hakamada, 78, a former professional boxer convicted of the 1966 murder of a family, has spent the last 45 years behind bars on death row, a Guinness World Record – including 30 years in solitary confinement waiting to die.The court ordered a retrial for Mr Hakamada, who was sentenced to death in 1968, but was not executed because of a lengthy appeals process.
It took 27 years for the Supreme Court to deny his first appeal for a retrial. He filed a second appeal in 2008, and the court finally ruled in his favour today.
The court said DNA analysis obtained by Mr Hakamada's lawyers suggested that investigators had fabricated evidence.


There has long been speculation he was innocent, and in 2007 one of the three judges who originally convicted him publicly declared he had thought Mr Hakamada was innocent
Amnesty International claimed earlier this year that new DNA tests undertaken in 2012 point to Mr Hakamada’s innocence.
His sister who has spent years fighting for her innocence said she was worried about the mental state of her brother, who now ‘talks nonsense’.
‘What I am worried about most is Iwao's health. If you put someone in jail for 47 years, it's too much to expect them to stay sane..I truly believe Iwao didn't do it. But once police suspect you for a crime, that's the end of the story. It was like that back then, it is like that now.’

18 comments:

  1. Omashey Oo! I believe God kept him away for a reason.. 45yrs is a long time thou for the truth to prevail!! Thank God he's a freeman now. He shld be compensated.

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  2. Chai releasing him at 78 to do what? He has no children, nothing. He should sure them

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  3. Hmmm GOD av mercy, 47 yrs 4 a crime he didnt commit....*Ovietemi*

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  4. Endtimes innocent prisoner

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  5. Akoba-adaba,,,,,,he is not the only..so many others like that.....

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  6. This is why I don't support death sentence, if they had executed him nko

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  7. They should compensated heavily.

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  8. Mehn,Dis is beyond compensation sef

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  9. Wasted years..*smh* he needs t b compensated.

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  10. God of internal gudness..... 45yrs of this man wasted for nothing.... May God punish all those unjust idiots that wasted this man's life for nothing.....
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    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

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  11. i have bn in kirikiri over 19yrs now.i strongly believ that i did not kill that fucking yoruba smellos*rawbone*

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    1. That explains your retarded comments

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  12. PHCN have not giving us light for 1month now.still they came with their crazy bills.The drama started a month ago when they brought they estimated bills.some guyz in my street assulted them for bring their crazy bills for 5min light.They reported to to police and they came to arrest they.they decided to punish us by cutting us out of power supply.we didnt beg them.They now came this morning to read out meter.they didnt come to read the meter before they give us bill.But bring their bills before reading the meter.of course we sent the away.we are used to the darkness now.

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  13. One day one problem. My man thank ur God and file ur case .

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  14. that must be ajegunle,they hardly hav light this days.not like us dat lives in v.g.c enough groove and 'll re tired of light*rawbone*

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  15. Some of u and ur dumb comments, we are talking of a man wrongly put in jail for tears and u dey talk of phcn as if na today ass dey back

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