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Japan orders longest-held death row inmate freed
The world's longest-serving death row inmate was freed Thursday by a Japanese court which found investigators had likely fabricated evidence in the murder case that put the former pro boxer behind bars for nearly half a century. The Shizuoka District Court suspended the death sentence and ordered a retrial for 78-year-old Iwao Hakamada, who had been convicted in the 1966 murder of a family and was sentenced to death in 1968.
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That's about as far away from "freed" as you can get, I think.
"we threatened to kill him for 46 years, then stopped" seems more semantically correct.