This is third 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
Death Penalty - Other Countries
In Depth Look at the Law: China’s Death Penalty -2: Truly Inhumane Killings Are Happening in China Under the Guise of Capital Punishment
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…
Great Book to Read Especially If It’s For Free, Online – The Death Penalty: A WorldWide Perspective
Roger Hood’s The Death Penalty: a WorldWide Perspective is a great book. This is true, even if it may be in need of a revised edition, given that this version was published in 2003.
And, if you sign up for a free trial at Questia.com, you can read his book for free … this is…
It Can Happen Overnight: Japan Suspends the Death Penalty
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,…
In Depth Look at the Law: China’s Death Penalty – 1: The Death Vans and Black Market Organ Trade
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 Death Penalty in Japan – Three Executions This Week
Here in the United States, it depends upon which state you’re considering — some states have the death penalty, some do not. Some are zealous in executing those on Death Row (think Texas), others have inmates living on Death Row for years and years (think Oregon).
However, in Japan, things are different. Japan has…