He’s the world’s longest-serving death row inmate. A court just declar

Iwao Hakamata, on death row since the 1960s, has been declared innocent by a Japanese court.. Hakamata was wrongfully sentenced to death in 1968 for allegedly murdering a family.. A forced confession and blood-spattered trousers led to his conviction, now overturned.. This marks the end of a five-decade-long legal battle, drawing international attention.