Japanese man acquitted of 1966 murders after decades death row

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44% : He spent 48 years behind bars -- more than 45 of them on death row -- making him the world's longest-serving death row inmate, according to the rights group, Amnesty International.
40% : TOYKO -- A Japanese man said to have spent the world's longest time on death row was cleared in a retrial of the 1966 murders of four people on Thursday, ending his family's search for justice for a wrongful conviction.

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