Thursday, December 5, 2019
83-year-old Iwao Hakamada former professional boxer
TOKYO
One of the capacity audience at Pope Francis' mass at
Tokyo Dome on Nov 26 was 83-year-old Iwao Hakamada. A former
professional boxer, Hakamada spent 48 years in prison, 46 of them on
death row, after being convicted of the 1966 murders of a family of four
in Shimizu City, Shizuoka. During his incarceration he was baptized and
became a Catholic.
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