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- worldnews@lemmy.ml
At least he gets to spend his last year or so a free man. What a waste of a life.
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https://www.dw.com/en/japan-acquits-world-s-longest-serving-death-row-prisoner/a-70327319
DW blocks countries outside Europe, so if you can’t load the page, I’ve pasted the story below
A former Japanese boxer convicted more than 50 years ago of killing his boss and family was acquitted by a Japanese court on Thursday.
Shizuoka District Court ruled that 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was innocent, in a retrial that was granted 10 years ago. The court’s presiding judge, Koshi Kunii, said the court acknowledged multiple fabrications of evidence and that Hakamada was not the culprit, according to broadcaster NHK.
Hakamada is the fifth death row inmate granted a retrial in Japan’s post-war history. All four previous cases also resulted in acquittals.
Hundreds of people queued in the morning at the court to try and secure a seat for the verdict in what has become a high-profile case that has gripped the nation.
A long battle to clear his name - In 1968, Hakamada was convicted of the murder of a company director and three of his family members two years before. He at first denied the crime, but confessed after what he later described as a brutal police interrogation that included beatings.
He was sentenced to death but lengthy appeals and the retrial process led to the postponement of his execution. A first appeal for a retrial was dismissed by a court 27 years after his sentencing. The latest retrial, which was finally approved by the court in 2023 after a second appeal was filed in 2008 by his sister, Hideko Hakamada, now 91, began in October.
Japan is the only major industrialized democracy other than the United States to retain capital punishment. As of December, 107 prisoners were waiting for their death sentences to be carried out. The method used for execution is always hanging.
Do they? To my knowledge, providing news for the world is pretty much their declared purpose.
Works in Canada
Yeah, I’ve tried from a lot of different VPN locations. Wasn’t able to find any DW is blocked in.
Times-out here in Aus on multiple ISPs (Exetel/Superloop, Telstra and Optus)
Having a look now though, it seems to just bounce between be12194.ccr41.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com and be5160.ccr42.fra03.atlas.cogentco.com
Also it takes the most harebrained route, rather than going the speedy way up through Singapore>Middle East>Europe, it goes out to Japan > USA, LA > Phoenix, AZ > El Paso, TX > Dallas/Fort Worth > Atlanta > DC > London UK > Amsterdam <> France
Thanks Cogent.
Regardless, without a VPN to Germany I couldn’t read the article due to bad routing.
Hmm, works for me in Aus, maybe since the ISP bs doesn’t happen with TPG.
Works for me with a VPN to Australia, so yeah, probably just ISPs being shit. Nothing new, I guess.