Sakae Menda, Japan's 1st person freed from death row

File photo taken in September 2013 in Tokyo shows Sakae Menda talking about his experience. Menda, the first person in Japan to have been released from death row after winning acquittal in a retrial, died on Dec. 5, 2020, of natural causes at a home for the elderly in Fukuoka Prefecture at the age of 95.

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