3. 世界服刑最久的死刑犯今日被宣判无罪

封面配图 | 美联社：周三，88岁的袴田巌在日本静冈散步本期词汇表达：1. acquit /əˈkwɪt/：vt. 无罪释放（acquit sb of the murder，宣告某人谋杀罪名不成立）名词：acquittal /əˈkwɪt(ə)l/2. retrial /ˌriːˈtraɪəl/：n. 重审3. on death row：（死囚）等待受刑（下文death row inmate指死囚）4. quadruple murder：四重谋杀（ˈkwɒdrʊpəl）5. reverse：推翻（法庭判决）6. wrongful conviction：错误定罪，误判（be convicted of a crime，证明某人有罪）7. criminal justice：刑事司法8. multiple fabrications of evidence：多次伪造证据（fabricate：捏造，编造）9. culprit /ˈkʌlprɪt/：罪犯（涉及谋杀案时，可译为凶手）10. behind bars：在监狱中（bar：也指律师职业，bar exam：律师资格考试）美联社（The Associated Press）SEPTEMBER 26Japanese court acquits a man in a 1966 murder retrial after decades on death row日本法院重审1966年谋杀案死囚服刑数十年后被判无罪TOKYO —A Japanese court ruled Thursday that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on death row.日本地方法院今日裁定，1966年的四人谋杀案经过重审，88岁的前拳击手袴田巌被判无罪。他在死囚区等待了数十年后，此前的错误定罪才被推翻。Iwao Hakamada's acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in a retrial in postwar Japanese criminal justice.袴田巌（はかまだいわお）被静冈（しずおか）地方法院无罪释放，使他成为战后日本刑事司法重审中第五名被判无罪的死囚。The court acknowledged a multiple fabrications of evidence and that Hakamada was not the culprit.法院承认多次伪造证据，袴田巌并非凶手。He spent 48 years behind bars — most of them on death row — making him the world's longest-serving death row inmate.他在狱中度过了48年（2014年开始在家服刑）——大部分时间在死囚区——这使他成为世界上服刑时间最长的死刑犯。