{"id":66956,"date":"2024-09-26T14:39:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T05:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/26\/iwao-hakamada-acquitted-murder-japan-death-row"},"modified":"2024-09-26T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T07:08:18","slug":"japanese-man-who-spent-46-years-on-death-row-cleared-of-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66956","title":{"rendered":"Japanese man who spent 46 years on death row cleared of murders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iwao Hakamada found not guilty of 1966 murder of his boss and his family after a retrial was ordered a decade ago<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese man who spent almost half a century on death row has been found not guilty of multiple murders, in a closely watched trial that has raised questions about Japan\u2019s use of the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/07\/japan-death-row-iwao-hakamada-murder-retrial-verdict\">Iwao Hakamada<\/a>, 88, was sentenced to hang in 1968 after being found guilty of murdering his boss, his wife and their two teenage children, and setting fire to their home two years earlier.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/26\/iwao-hakamada-acquitted-murder-japan-death-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iwao Hakamada found not guilty of 1966 murder of his boss and his family after a retrial was ordered a decade agoA Japanese man who spent almost half a century on death row has been found not guilty of multiple murders, in a closely watched trial that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1038,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-capital-punishment","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66963,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66956\/revisions\/66963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}