Yeah, I know it's Japan and they have a bit of a reputation for forced confessions but....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y9x6zrkrro
'An 88-year-old man who is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court, after it found that evidence used against him was fabricated...Hakamada, who was exempted from all hearings due to his deteriorated mental state, has been living under the care of his 91-year-old sister..Hakamada initially denied having robbed and murdered the victims, but later gave what he came to describe as a coerced confession following beatings and interrogations that lasted up to 12 hours a day...For years, however, Hakamada’s lawyers argued that the DNA recovered from the clothes did not match his, raising the possibility that the items belonged to someone else...that the red stains found on the clothes could not have been blood, as blood would not remain red on clothing immersed in miso for a year...Along with the United States, Japan is the only G7 country that still imposes capital punishment, with death row prisoners being notified of their hanging just a few hours in advance' |  |
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