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World’s Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Granted a Retrial

‘WAITED 57 YEARS’

Iwao Hakamada, 87, was convicted of murdering a family in 1968.

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

Breaking News Editor

Iwao Hakamada (L), flanked by his sister Hideko, is released from Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo, March 27, 2014.
Kyodo/Reuters
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