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Family fights for death-row retrial under Japan's 'snail-paced' system

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Since his teenage years, Koji Hayashi has dreaded one thing: his stubborn, once-vivacious mother being hanged for murder after failing to win her long campaign for a retrial.

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Japan’s retrial system under scrutiny as son fights for death row mother’s case

WAKAYAMA, March 29 — Since his teenage years, Koji Hayashi has dreaded one thing: his stubborn, once-vivacious mother being hanged for murder after failing to win her long campaign for a retrial. Left almost unchanged for a century, Japan’s current retrial system is often labelled the “Unopenable Door” because the chances of being granted a legal do-over are so slim. But hopes have grown of a change since a court last year overturned the wrongfu…

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Family fights for death-row retrial under Japan's 'snail-paced' system

Since his teenage years, Koji Hayashi has dreaded one thing: his stubborn, once-vivacious mother being hanged for murder after failing to win her long campaign for a retrial.

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Macau Business

Japan minister calls for probe into ‘unopenable’ retrial system

Japan’s justice minister on Friday asked a legal panel to review the country’s retrial system after the acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner last year heightened scrutiny of a system often labelled the “Unopenable Door”. Keisuke Suzuki tasked the panel of legal experts with scrutinising Japan’s retrial process to recommend any necessary revisions, after it courted criticism for being too snail-paced to safeguard victims of…

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IBTimes Australia

Family Fights For Death-row Retrial Under Japan's 'Snail-paced' System

Since his teenage years, Koji Hayashi has dreaded one thing: his stubborn, once-vivacious mother being hanged for murder after failing to win her long campaign for a retrial.

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