A former professional boxer and death-row inmate accused of a 1966 quadruple murder in central Japan is innocent, his elderly sister says, in the first hearing of his retrial that is likely to lead to his exoneration.
A former professional boxer and death-row inmate accused of a 1966 quadruple murder in central Japan is innocent, his elderly sister says, in the first hearing of his retrial that is likely to lead to his exoneration.
The initial hearing for the retrial of a man whose death sentence was finalized for a 1966 quadruple murder in central Japan will be held on Oct. 27, his defense team says..
A Japanese high court on June 7 refused to grant a retrial to a man who served 17 years in prison for abducting and killing a 22-month-old boy near Nagoya, central Japan, in 2002.
A Japanese high court on June 5 denied a retrial for a 95-year-old woman who served 10 years in prison for the murder of her brother-in-law in 1979 in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan.