Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell , a Republican, has signed into law legislation that bans campaign contributions from lobbyists and state contractors, limits political action committee (PAC) funding, closes a loophole allowing unrestricted corporate funding, and establishes a...
California Supreme Court Chief Justice and Republican appointee Ronald George said in a Reuters interview Tuesday that the state should execute death row inmates within five years of sentencing or reprieve them, as opposed to waiting for...
A bill renewing the 2002 Terrorism Risk Insurance Act will be debated in the US House of Representatives later this week, according to acting House Majority Leader Roy Blunt (R-MS) . The original law, passed...
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that military commission trials for two foreign Guantanamo prisoners will begin with plea hearings on January 10 at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility without waiting for the US Supreme Court to decide the...
A Russian judge announced at a preliminary hearing Tuesday that three Chechens accused of murdering US journalist Paul Klebnikov in July 2004 would be tried in front of a jury during closed sessions. The man...
Lower courts in Uzbekistan Saturday sentenced 25 more men found guilty of involvement in the May 2005 Andijan uprising. Thirteen defendants were sentenced by the Tashkent provincial court and 12 by the Tashkent city court; all received...
A Yemeni appellate court Saturday upheld the capital sentence of a Shia cleric accused of spying for the Iranian government and for supporting an armed rebellion in northern Yemen last year. The case will now go...
Iran's conservative Guardian Council Saturday approved the constitutionality of a bill designed to prevent inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if Iran is reported to the UN Security Council...
The European Union has released a statement criticizing the death penalty after North Carolina executed Kenneth Lee Boyd , marking the 1,000th execution in the US since the US Supreme Court lifted a 10 year...
Jordan's King Abdullah II has urged the Jordanian parliament to quickly approve new anti-terrorism legislation, drafted two weeks ago in the wake of last month's hotel bombing that left 57 people dead. During...
