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The octogenarian spent 46 years on death row for a quadruple murder in 1966 but a court acquitted him in September, ruling that evidence had been fabricated. Last month the local police chief came to Hakamada's home to say he was sorry and on Wednesday it was the turn of regional chief prosecutor Hideo Yamada.

"We feel terribly remorseful that Mr Iwao Hakamada was put into legally unstable conditions for a significantly long period of time, forcing you and (your sister) Hideko to face hard times that are barely possible to put into words," local media quoted Yamada as saying as he bowed in apology. His sister Hideko, 91, who often speaks for her brother, said they were "extremely happy that he was found innocent. Thank you for coming today."

Japan is the only major industrialised democracy other than the United States to retain capital punishment, a policy that has broad public support. Hakamada, 88, is the fifth death row inmate granted a retrial in Japan's post-war history. All four previous cases also resulted in exonerations.

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 day ago

That's why you shouldn't do death sentence 🤷‍♂️

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Evidence fabricated? Prosecutor should be frying the responsible detectives, and the Chiefs punished as well for allowing this in their dept.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

After 46 years they may be already dead.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And that's why this prosecutor is making the apology. Everyone knows that he had nothing to do with the original verdict and sentencing, so he looks noble and there is no one alive to actually take the blame.

They acknowledge that the system is flawed, but no one has to do anything about it.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So why can’t the Japanese apologize for WW2 atrocities? Just yesterday there was an article about them thanking Korean slave laborers but refusing to acknowledge it was slavery or apologize.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Because they’re Koreans. Don’t kid yourself, Japanese people are crazy racist.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'm just so surprised on behalf of state-sanctioned murder advocates that a punishment with zero ability to deter crime, dramatically higher cost than literally any other existing sentence, and a bare-minimum 4% error rate just keeps being shitty. We really ought to implement their reform suggestion sometime to "only kill the ones we're completely, 100% sure are guilty" or whatever stupid, bullshit, vengeance-fetish fantasy they live in.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The cruelty is the point, as per standard procedure.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

offtopic: it's funny that 4% is also the approximate chance of being a person without any condition from DSM-5 .

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Well, that makes up for everything.