September 2009

This is second part of our new Friday Legal Memo Series – In Depth Look at the Law, where we’re focusing on an international horror that is not getting enough attention. In China, people are being executed inside mobile death vans, vehicles that drive from village to village. First, the victim is killed inside the

Today, Emory University posted an article detailing the talk that Juan Melendez gave to Emory’s new Criminal Law Society.  (Amnesty International sponsored the event.)  It is simply a must-read for those interested in the current criminal justice system in the State of Florida, especially those dealing with the imposition of the death penalty in our

Remembering back to a couple of months ago, we posted about three executions taking place in Japan, in just one week. 

Well, here’s how fast things can change:  Japan has effectively nixed capital punishment today.  How?  By the appointment of Keiko Chiba as the country’s new Justice Minister.  A lifelong opponent of the death penalty,

The death van silently rolls into town collecting and executing condemned inmates. Falun Gong practitioners suddenly disappear or die unexplained deaths.

Both actions derive from the Chinese government’s corruption and greed.

Substantial evidence demonstrates that China is grossly profiting from the black-market organ trade by using condemned prisoners and Falun Gong captives to supply much

The next entry in our Friday series — Friday’s Legal Memo, an In-depth Look at the Law — educates us on how capital punishment is administered in China. 

Its author is our invaluable legal intern, Sin-Ting Mary Liu, and her qualifications for providing us with this trusted work are:

EDUCATION & TRAINING

JURIS DOCTOR CANDIDATE, Nova Southeastern University, Expected Graduation 2010

GPA – 3.72

Class Rank – 5 (Top 2%)

Honors
• Dean’s List
• Fall 2007 Highest Grade Award -Legal research and writing
• Spring 2008 Highest Grade Award -Legal research and writing
• ILSA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW, Staff Member – editing, source pulling, and Bluebooking multiple journal articles
• Nova Southeastern University – Shepard Broad Law Center Merit Scholarship Award

Activities
• Phi Alpha Delta (PAD) – Member
• American Bar Association (ABA) – Student Member
• Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) – Member

Special Areas of Legal Interest
• Criminal Law
• Employment Law
• Biotechnology
• Family Law

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ADVERTISING, University of Florida, 1994
• Minor in East Asian Languages and Literature

DALE CARNEGIE TRAINING COURSE, 1997 – 1998
Continue Reading Author of Series on China’s Death Penalty: Sin-Ting Mary Liu

Romell Broom was sentenced to die for the rape and murder of Tryna Middleton by the State of Ohio and last Tuesday, Mr. Broom was strapped to a gurney and his execution by lethal injection began. 

The 2+ Hour Failed Execution

Except they couldn’t find a vein in which to insert the needle.  They tried