CORRECTED: Japan court acquits man in 1966 murder retrial

CORRECTED: Japan court acquits man in 1966 murder retrial

Iwao Hakamata leaves home for his daily stroll on Sept. 26, 2024, in Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. The Shizuoka District Court acquitted the 88-year-old former professional boxer the same day in a retrial decades after he was sentenced to death over a 1966 quadruple murder case.

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