A Japanese court on Thursday is set to hand down its verdict in the retrial of 88-year-old Hakamata, who was sentenced to death in 1968 for murdering a family in a marathon legal saga that's brought global scrutiny to Japan's criminal justice system and fuelled calls to abolish the death penalty in ...
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