Source: International Business Times
The 37-year-old son of death-row inmate Masumi Hayashi, who goes by the pseudonym of Koji Hayashi standing in front of the land of the family's previous house AFP 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 wrongful conviction of the world's longest-serving death row prisoner Iwao Hakamada, whose case took 42 years to be reopened.
