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Article: JAPAN: PROPONENTS OF DEATH PENALTY FACE CRITICISM FROM ABROAD

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November 14, 2007
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Mutsuko Murakami
Inter Press Service English News Wire
11-14-2007
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 all ...

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