NYMHM: New execution inquiries; Japan in war and peace

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   NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * May 14, 2008 * Vol. 7, No. 20

   Important but overlooked news from around the world.
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QUOTED:

    "At the end of the day, life and death in India for the poorer
    convicts on death row is a like a lottery."

    -- Activist Mukul Sharma on what he says is a biased capital
    punishment policy in India (see "Crime & Punishment," below).


CONTENTS:

    *War & Peace*
      Japan's military dilemma

    *Capital Punishment*
      New execution inquiries


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  WAR & Peace
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  > Japan's Military Dilemma

   Wrestles With War and Peace

    Japanese activists turned out in the thousands last week to
    oppose changes to the nation's pacifist constitution.

    At issue is the so-called Article 9, a charter which severely
    restricts the activity of the Japanese military, and which has
    been targeted for updating as the nation's international role
    has changed in recent years.

    According to the Associated Press, thousands of ...

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  CRIME & PUNISHMENT
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  > New Execution Inquiries

    The United States resumed executions last week after a brief
    moratorium, but several other nations that still carry out
    the death penalty have recently begun to question the practice.

    Japanese radio listeners were surprised last week to hear a
    broadcast of a condemned man's last words and the
    sound of his hanging.

    The execution was recorded more than 50 years ago, and was used
    in a new documentary about the nation's secretive ...

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