Prosecutors demand the death penalty in the retrial of the 88-year-old Iwao Hakamata, whose death sentence was finalized decades ago over a 1966 quadruple murder in central Japan.
Katsuhiko Nishijima, a lawyer who led the defense team for a death-row inmate accused of a 1966 quadruple murder in central Japan in an ongoing case, has died at 82, sources related to the matter said. Registering as lawyer in 1965 after graduating from Chuo University, Nishijima practiced mostly criminal…
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.