82-year-old Iwao Hakamada could be mistaken for any Japanese octogenarian going about his daily chores, but the former boxer has had anything but an ordinary life: he has been living under a death sentence for half a century, thought to be the longest-serving condemned man.
Japanese boxer on death row keeps up the good fight
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