Episode 19: Guinness World Record for... Death row
Just Cases
English - November 13, 2020 06:10 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsEducation true crime law court courts trials lawyer jury juries stories Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 18: A country divided
1968 seems a lifetime ago. It was a defining year of the 20th century. 1968 is also the year that a Japanese professional boxer was sentenced to death for murder. Remarkably, he remains on death row to this day. The case of Iwao Hakamada has exposed questionable police practices, a forced confession and a bombshell claim from one of the judges who sentenced him.