{"id":1036732,"date":"2023-03-24T18:04:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=5f1abd49588b632840462fbc6771585a"},"modified":"2023-03-24T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T18:04:12","slug":"death-penalty-and-high-conviction-rates-a-deep-dive-into-japans-criminal-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/24\/death-penalty-and-high-conviction-rates-a-deep-dive-into-japans-criminal-justice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Death penalty and high conviction rates: A deep dive into Japan&#8217;s criminal justice system"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAt 87 years old, Iwao Hakamada is on the verge of finding true freedom, more than 50 years after being sentenced to death for murders he says he did not commit.\u00a0Tokyo's high court ordered a retrial this month, acknowledging that key evidence that led to his conviction had likely been fabricated by investigators.\u00a0Along with the US, Japan is one of the few developed countries that maintain capital punishment.\u00a0For more, we speak to Chiara Sangiorgio, death penalty advisor at Amnesty International.\u00a0\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/access-asia\/20230324-death-penalty-and-high-conviction-rates-a-deep-dive-into-japan-s-criminal-justice-system\">Access Asia<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 87 years old, Iwao Hakamada is on the verge of finding true freedom, more than 50 years after being sentenced to death for murders he says he did not commit.\u00a0Tokyo&#8217;s high court ordered a retrial this month, acknowledging that key evidence that led &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063418,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036732\/revisions\/1063418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}