Iwao Hakamada walks in front of a fence

The longest-serving death row prisoner, designer babies, Spongebob Squarepants around the world

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Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, walks for five or six hours every day. After nearly half a century in a 50 square-foot cell, he seems to have an insatiable need to roam. But his freedom could be revoked at any time.

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