Sidebar With an Expert Capital Litigator
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…
North Carolina
The video below is a ten minute documentary by Scott Langley, where a North Carolina Warden gives a detailed tour of Death Row, and tells what happens during an execution — from last phone calls, to the execution itself and its aftermath.
Texas
The Associated Press has placed an interview online — they’re…
Cameron Todd Willingham’s story is sad and tragic and true, and it’s a great thing that there is more and more media coverage of how this innocent man was executed by the State of Texas.
Hopefully, the travesty of justice in the Cameron Todd Willingham case will remind us all that there are real people…
John Grisham chose a story about the death penalty for his first non-fiction novel, and it’s well worth the read. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, has been out for awhile — so long in fact, that you can buy a used copy on Amazon for a buck ninety-nine ($1.99). …
As these words are being typed, the jurors over in Sarasota, Florida, are deciding whether or not Michael King should die.
Who is Michael King? The Mitigating Circumstances
Michael King has just been convicted of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Denise Lee. He is 38 years old. The prosecution does not contest that King…
Apparently, Cy Vance’s great article in HuffPo on the tragic story of Cameron Todd Willingham (see last week’s post) was just the start. More and more stories are appearing across the country, covering the brutal fact that a man was killed by the State of Texas for the arson murder of his children and only…
Our system of justice is built on the belief that it’s better to let a guilty man go free than to imprison – or kill – an innocent man for a crime he did not commit. That’s why there are all those procedural hurdles from the beginning of an investigation all the way through that…
The San Antonio Express-News has provided a video containing snippets from the closing arguments in the trial of Sharon Keller, Chief Justice of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (the highest criminal court in that state). It bears viewing, and it’s only 2:24 minutes long.
Listening to it, you’ll hear an attorney’s deep voice…