An internal US Department of Justice order disclosed Monday by the National Journal gave two top aides to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales wide discretion to fire and hire political appointees within the Department who were not subject...
Bertha Wilson , the first woman appointed to the Supreme of Canada , died over the weekend of Alzheimer's disease, it was disclosed Monday. Wilson was 83. She was appointed to the Canadian high...
A judge sitting at London's Old Bailey criminal court sentenced five British men of Pakistani descent to life imprisonment Monday at the end of a year-long terrorism trial - the largest UK terrorism trial since al Qaeda's...
Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said Monday that the government would amend an existing federal law preventing convicted criminals from profiting from their offenses if it became apparent that it allowed Guantanamo detainee David Hicks to sell his...
The number of executions worldwide dropped in 2006 from 2,148 the year previous to 1,591, according to new statistics issued by Amnesty International. Over 90 percent of the year's executions were conducted in six countries: Iran,...
A spokesman for the Cambodian Bar Association (BAKC) said Saturday that the group would dramatically reduce the fees it proposed to levy on foreign lawyers taking part in the upcoming Khmer Rouge genocide trials before the...
Death Penalty Statistics 2006, Amnesty International, April 27, 2007 . Read the full statistical report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a speech to both houses of the Russian parliament Thursday that he was putting Russia's implementation of the terms of the Conventional Forces in Europe...
The US Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday proposed a new rule for the calculation of power plant emissions subject to additional pollution controls, adopting a standard recently criticized by the Supreme Court in a ruling earlier...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko announced in a national address Wednesday that he was postponing until June 24 parliamentary elections originally scheduled for May 27 to avoid funding problems and allow more time for...
