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A Japanese court has found an 88-year-old former boxer not guilty in a retrial for a quadruple murder in 1966, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on death row. Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court on Thursday makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in a retrial in post-war Japanese criminal justice. The case could rekindle a debate about abolishing the death penalty in Japan. The court’s presiding judge, Koshi Kunii, said the court acknowledged multiple fabrications of evidence and that Hakamada was not the culprit, according to Japa…

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