The U.S. State Department has designated U Min Zin, an American scholar who studied Myanmar, as wrongfully detained in China. He is the second U.S. academic to receive the designation in recent months.
NYTimes – US 2 publishers and 2 source reports documented this archived update.
NYTimes – US U Min Zin, a scholar who studied Myanmar, is one of two U.S. citizens the department has designated as wrongfully detained in China.
NPR – US Christa Pike, 50, convicted of murdering a classmate in Knoxville in 1995, is scheduled to die by lethal injection in Tennessee on Wednesday after Governor Bill Lee denied her clemency request on Monday. If carried out, it would be the state's first execution of a woman in roughly 200 years. Her lawyers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to grant a stay.
NPR – US Lindsay Clancy was back in court on Tuesday, her first appearance since a mistrial was declared earlier this month. Clancy's attorney argued for the first time that there is no evidence that Clancy killed her three small children, something he did not dispute in her first trial. Shanelle Kaul reports.
NYTimes – US Lindsay Clancy returned to a Massachusetts court on Tuesday for the first time since her murder trial ended in a mistrial over a deadlocked jury. Her attorneys asked a judge to find her not guilty and to bar a retrial, arguing double jeopardy and insufficient evidence. The judge is also considering a motion to dismiss the triple-murder case.
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