Tokyo high court rules against 2014 decision that conviction of Iwao Hakamada was unsafe A Japanese man who was freed in 2014 after spending 45 years on death row could be sent back to prison after a court overturned the decision to grant him a retrial. Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to hang in 1968 for the murders two years earlier of a company president, his wife and their … [Read more...] about Japan: man freed after 45 years on death row could go back to jail