Sakae Menda Biography

Sakae Menda (免田栄, Menda Sakae, born November 4, 1925) is a Japanese man who was convicted of a double homicide, in 1948, but was later 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.