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Article: JAPAN: PROPONENTS OF DEATH PENALTY FACE CRITICISM FROM ABROAD.
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- Interpress Service
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- November 14, 2007
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By Mutsuko Murakami
TOKYO, Nov. 14, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Japan's vocal capital punishment lobby is bracing itself for embarrassment on the international stage, as the U.N. prepares to vote on a worldwide moratorium on executions.
Japan is now conspicuously the only major rich industrialized nation with a fully operational capital punishment system.
In September, the United States Supreme Court agreed to review the legality of lethal injections, the country's main execution method. Except for one execution that went ahead because a Texas judge refused to keep her court house open after 5 p.m. to hear an appeal, the Supreme Court has been able block ...