World : Japan’s Top Court Granted Posthumous Retrial To A Man Convicted Of Murder In 1984

TOKYO, Feb 25 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- Japan's top court has granted a posthumous retrial to a man convicted of robbing and murdering a 69-year-old woman in 1984, in the first such retrial in postwar history for a case involving a sentence of life imprisonment or death, Kyodo News reported.