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Since his teenage years, Koji Hayashi has dreaded one thing: his stubborn, once-vivacious mother being hanged for murder after failing to win her long campaign for a retrial.
Family fights for death-row retrial under Japan's 'snail-paced' system
Japan's current retrial system is often labeled the 'Unopenable Door' because the chances of being granted a legal do-over are so slim.
www.japantimes.co.jp
April 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Five ambulances, a fire truck and a UN vehicle were struck one by one.

The bodies of the first responders were then ditched in a mass grave.

A war crime. Without anything close to the appropriate level of global outrage.
March 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This remains an injustice. 'With 50 million criminal and civil cases pending, it would take 300 years to clear the country’s judicial backlog.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jagtar Singh Johal acquitted in India terror case
The 38-year-old's family say the remaining cases against him should now be dropped.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A sobering reminder that when you set foot in another country, you leave yourself at the mercy of that country's 'systems ' of which you probably know little until it's too late.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/w...
China’s Vow of ‘Leniency’ in Plea Deals Erodes Rights to Fair Trial
China has embraced a plea deal system, but lawyers and scholars fear that it is being abused to further erode individual rights — and for shakedowns.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I note a previous King Donald, 'Donald the Fair', ended up being 'blinded and doomed to eternal imprisonment' before dying in prison.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’
US president made comparison after administration rescinded New York City’s congestion pricing plan
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I am sorry to learn of this. He was a great archaeologist.

www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn obituary
Archaeologist who embraced new ideas and technologies and challenged long-held assumptions about the rise of early civilisation
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:18 AM