Anyone know the details of this? Is there some doubt?

Mike?


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Ex-boxer on death row for 38 years appeals for retrial

Thursday, September 2, 2004 at 02:53 JST
SHIZUOKA — Defense lawyers for a former professional boxer on 
death row filed an appeal for a retrial with the Supreme Court on 
Wednesday after the Tokyo High Court rejected his request last 
Friday, they said.

Iwao Hakamada, 68, was sentenced to death for the murder of a 
soybean paste company executive, his wife and their two children, 
who were killed in Shizuoka Prefecture in June 1966 when Hakamada 
was an employee of the company. The family's home was set on fire 
and about 200,000 yen in cash was stolen (Kyodo News)