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
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It Can Happen Overnight: Japan Suspends the Death Penalty
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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,…
Author of Series on China’s Death Penalty: Sin-Ting Mary Liu
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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
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Ohio Set for Second Execution Attempt of Romell Broom Unless His Lawyers Work Fast
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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…
Inside the Death Chamber – Tours by Death Row Wardens
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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…
Technological Advances and the Death Penalty: Evidence Changes Over Time as Science Exonerates Defendants, but Capital Punishment Can Mean Justice Comes Too Late
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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…
AEDPA, the Power of Judicial Dissents, and the Reality of Troy Davis
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This week, the New York Times reports that dissents are increasing in federal cases, based in large part upon judicial frustration with the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. According to their investigation and research, this single statute has been the basis of 6 -24 dissents per year in federal death penalty…
The Death Penalty in Japan – Three Executions This Week
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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…
Pending Senate Bill Will Expand Federal Death Penalty
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Last week, as an amendment to the Department of Defense fiscal authorization bill to cover 2010 expenses, the U.S. Senate passed the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
This week, the Senate passed an amendment to the Act – and if this becomes law, it will allow capital punishment for those found guilty of hate…
U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Bies Case – Ohio Can Have A Second Sentencing Trial to Try and Impose Death Penalty on Mentally Retarded Defendant
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Last month, the pending case of Michael Bies was discussed here – Bies, held to have an IQ of 63, had been sentenced to die by the State of Ohio and advocates for Bies took his case to the highest court in the land in protest. Testimony had been provided that Michael Bies was functionally…