Sakae Menda Criminal
Sakae Menda (免田栄, Menda Sakae, born November 4, 1925) is a Japanese man who was convicted of a double homicide, but was exonerated by retrial in 1983. This was the first time anyone was ever released from death row by retrial in Japan. He is now a leading figure in Japan for the movement to abolish the death penalty.
