A California proposal for a two-year death penalty moratorium hit a permanent stumbling block in the California Assembly's Appropriations Committee Thursday. The moratorium proposal intended to suspend executions in California until...
An official with the Iraqi tribunal trying Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity confirmed Saturday that chief judge Rizgar Amin has in fact submitted his resignation. The resignation was originally reported late Friday but was...
DaimlerChrysler has suspended nine managers allegedly involved in the UN oil-for food scandal after a UN inquiry suspected them of paying bribes to secure business delivery trucks to the government of former Iraqi ruler...
Thousands of women marched in Milan Saturday, demanding that Italy keep a 1978 law that legalized abortion during the first three months of pregnancy. Police estimated that 50,000 people joined in the march to keep abortion...
President George W. Bush praised US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as a man of character and intelligence during his Saturday radio address , saying the United States would be fortunate to have him...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused to grant immunity Friday to two police officials named in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 386 people who were roped off at Pershing Park...
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in the case of Dixon v. United States, where the Court will clarify how criminal defendants can use evidence of domestic battery at their trials. Cherie Ashford...
US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced Friday that he will vote to confirm US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito , while most, if not all, of the eight...
Turkey's Minister of Justice Cemil Cicek said Friday that Mehmet Ali Agca , the Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, may have mistakenly been released from prison eleven months early for the...
Seven federal appellate judges who have worked with US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday on the fourth day of his confirmation hearings, saying that...
