
Japanese prosecutors again sought the death penalty in the retrial on Wednesday of an ex-boxer who was the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until his release in 2014, local media reported.
Iwao Hakamada, now 88, spent 46 years on death row -- a stretch recognised by Guinness World Records -- after being convicted in 1968 of robbing and murdering his boss, the man's wife and their two teenage children.