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日本は46年前に死刑を宣告された囚人の裁判を繰り返さ
Japón repetirá el juicio a un reo condenado a muerte hace 46 años
Iwao Hakamada fue sentenciado a la horca por el asesinato de cuatro personas de una misma familia en Shimizu en 1966
Más de 40 años esperando la muerte
Irak e Irán cortan el retroceso de la pena de muerte en el mundo
Liberado en EE UU un reo que pasó 30 años en el corredor de la muerte
Álvaro Corcuera 27 MAR 2014 - 09:22 CET
Hideko Hakamada, hermana Iwao, agradece las muestras de apoyo. / REUTERS-LIVE!
Hideko Hakamada, Iwao sister appreciates the outpouring of support. / REUTERS-LIVE!
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Japan repeated the trial of a prisoner sentenced to death 46 years ago
Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to hang for the murder of four people from the same family in Shimizu in 1966
More than 40 years waiting to die
Iraq and Iran cut off the retreat of the death penalty in the world
Released in the U.S. on an inmate who spent 30 years on death row
Álvaro Corcuera 27 MAR 2014 - 9:22 CET
A court decided Thursday Shizuoka retrial the longest-serving prisoner on death row in Japan and worldwide . 46 years have passed since Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to hang for the murder of four people from the same family in Shimizu in 1966. The extraordinary thing about the news is that rather than the Japanese justice Hakamada only granted a second chance in history to five other prisoners , four of which ended up being acquitted after decades in prison. The last time something like this happened was in the early eighties. Judge Hiroaki Murayama said Thursday : " The clothes ( in which the judgment was based on the 60 ) are not charged . It is unfair to stop Iwao Hakamada longer, since the possibility that he is innocent is clear enough. "
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Hakamada now has 78. He has spent more than half his life in prison , waking each day not knowing if it was the last . Because in Japan , death row inmates know their date of execution until an hour before it occurs. Custom made in the case of this former boxer , who became the sixth best in featherweight category in your country, it has been completely lost his head , and even not to accept visits from his sister Hideko Hakamada that nevertheless tirelessly to see him go once a month since Iwao went to prison and now also present in the court of Shizuoka. "This has happened thanks to everyone who helped us this year ," he told the outlet .
Since the Japanese country adopted its Constitution in 1946 after the defeat in World War II , and since its penal code established the death penalty for the most serious crimes , Japan has executed 679 people. It is the only major industrialized democracy besides the U.S., killing its citizens with the law in hand. One way of delivering justice that seems to be in future in this country, if we consider that the degree of citizen acceptance is huge : over 80 % of Japanese are in favor , but the few voices critical of the system ensure that the society lives uninformed on this issue.
For Hakamada could change something that situation. Many who claim , for years, the old man is innocent former boxer today . The most significant person is one of the three judges who sent him to the gallows : Norimichi Kumamoto spent years ensuring that it was wrong . Also human rights organizations such as Amnesty International believe that there is evidence to charge Iwao the quadruple murder happened in the miso factory where he worked . Other voices , like that of the former Minister of Justice of Japan , Keiko Chiba, have also clamored for the release of the defendant.
The case was deeply flawed from the beginning. The great proof of guilt is a signed Hakamada after 23 consecutive days of police questioning confession. 277 hours were against the agents , where these could have tortured the prisoner. In fact , the Japanese system is often based on confessions obtained in known as ' daiyo kangoku ' cells in police stations where no time limit is interrogated without access to a lawyer and without a video camera that records everything happens in so opaque place , denounced by Amnesty International often as source of many police and judicial rulings thus . Hakamada before trial in 1966 , one could have a word with his lawyer for 37 minutes. Now, 46 years later, it may be different, although it is Hakamada a man who has long been mentally ill .
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