A Japanese court will hand down a ruling Thursday in the retrial of an 88-year-old man for a 1966 quadruple murder in which he is seeking to be formally acquitted a decade after being released due to doubts over the evidence against him.Iwao Hakamata, who still technically faces capital punishment, spent nearly half a century behind bars, making him the world's longest-serving death row inmate at the time when new evidence led to his release from incarceration in 2014.Prosecutors again demanded the death penalty in the retrial at the Shizuoka District Court, whose hearings concluded in May,…READ FULL ARTICLE
