World's oldest death row inmate awaits retrial

Iwao Hakamada is a Japanese man who was sentenced to death for murder. He has become an emblematic figure in the fight against the death penalty, and his conviction has been criticized by international human rights organizations. Hakamada is a former boxer who worked in a miso factory. When in 1966  Hakamada's boss, his wife and their two children were found stabbed to death in their house later burned down in Shizuoka, in central Japan, he was the prime suspect.