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Man on Death Row for Half a Century Declared Innocent After Revelation That Investigators Faked Evidence Against Him

Former Japanese professional boxer Iwao Hakamada (L), who was sentenced to death for the murder of four members of a family in 1966 and released in 2014, and his sister Hideko (R) leave after a press conference in Tokyo on November 25, 2019. (Credit: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images)

A Japanese man who has been waiting on death row for nearly half a century has been found innocent after it was discovered that investigators faked the evidence used against him, according to reports.

Iwao Hakamada, 88, has been on death row for 56 years until he was recently granted a retrial after growing suspicion that investigators may have planted the evidence that was used to convict him of a quadruple murder.

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