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© KYODOFilm reveals human side of exonerated death row inmate Hakamata
By Risako Nakanishi TOKYO©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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englisc aspyrgend
Have the police who beat and tortured a false confession out of him had any action taken against them? Have the police who were responsible for such an incompetent investigation had any action taken against them? Have the police reopened the case to find the real murderer of that family?
Or are they trying to hide and hope it all goes away!
obladi
With a nearly perfect conviction rate in Japan, surely there are many other innocent people in prison and even on Death Row, but I don't hear anything about systematically investigating the interrogations of these prisoners.
lostrune2
Japan needs its own "Innocence Project" initiative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_Project