45 Years on Death Row Unjustly

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45 Years on Death Row Unjustly

Postby MitchG.Robot » Sat Dec 14, 2013 6:06 pm

http://www.davidrowntree.org/archives/1024*

Basically, forty five years ago a Japanese boxer named Hakamada Iwao was found guilty for murder on no evidence except a confession that was obtained unethically--without the offer of a lawyer and also under torture--leading one of the original judges to resign, "unable to bear the burden of conscience" of having given the sentence. Under Japanese law--which you might be surprised still has a death sentence (I certainly was)--he can be executed at the court's whim. Until then, he waits in death row, this article marking his 45th anniversary imprisoned.

An Amnesty International petition to free him is here:

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/justice-hakamada?from=issues


Edit: I was getting error messages whilst trying to post this earlier so I didn't realise it was working. sorry!


*This is an independent source, and I don't mean anything by using it. It's just where I learned about this and I didn't find any other source that was as simple and to the point, so here it is.
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