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News Senate panel OKs demand for legal opinion on interrogation methods
Senate panel OKs demand for legal opinion on interrogation methods
Jeannie Shawl
May 5, 2006 09:35:00 am

The US Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday added a provision to the 2007 defense spending bill which would require the Bush administration to provide "a US government coordinated legal opinion on whether certain specified interrogation techniques...

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News Serbia arrests 3 suspects accused of helping Mladic avoid capture
Serbia arrests 3 suspects accused of helping Mladic avoid capture
Jeannie Shawl
May 5, 2006 08:52:00 am

Serbian police on Thursday arrested three people suspected of helping war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic evade authorities seeking to arrest him and turn him over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former...

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News Juror says Moussaoui seen as minor part of Sept. 11 plot
Juror says Moussaoui seen as minor part of Sept. 11 plot
Jeannie Shawl
May 5, 2006 08:11:00 am

Jury members in the Moussaoui sentencing trial recommended a life sentence for convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui because several jurors believed that Moussaoui only played a minor role in the plot...

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News Cheney calls for release of jailed Belarus opposition leader, scolds Russia on rights
Cheney calls for release of jailed Belarus opposition leader, scolds Russia on rights
Jeannie Shawl
May 4, 2006 05:21:00 pm

US Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday called on the Belarus government to release opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich , who was jailed last week for attending an illegal demonstration....

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News Canadian Conservative government introduces tough anti-crime bills
Canadian Conservative government introduces tough anti-crime bills
Jeannie Shawl
May 4, 2006 04:45:00 pm

Canadian Justice Minister Vic Toews introduced two anti-crime bills Thursday in the Canadian Parliament as the new Conservative party government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper made good on its January election promises to get tough...

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News Senate judiciary panel to hold new hearing for judicial nominee after filibuster threat
Senate judiciary panel to hold new hearing for judicial nominee after filibuster threat
Jeannie Shawl
May 4, 2006 02:10:00 pm

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , said Thursday that the committee will hold further hearings on the nomination of White House aide Brett Kavanaugh to the US...

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News Mexico president sends drug decriminalization bill back to Congress for changes
Mexico president sends drug decriminalization bill back to Congress for changes
Jeannie Shawl
May 4, 2006 12:59:00 pm

Mexican President Vicente Fox has sent a bill that would decriminalize the possession of small portions of such traditionally-illegal drugs as heroin, cocaine and marijuana back to Congress, reversing a statement from his office the...

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News Guantanamo detainees lose UK court bid to force government to help with release
Guantanamo detainees lose UK court bid to force government to help with release
Jeannie Shawl
May 4, 2006 12:18:00 pm

The UK High Court on Thursday rejected the petition of a group of British residents detained at Guantanamo Bay appealing against the government's decision not to press the US government to release the detainees....

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Judge confirms Moussaoui life sentence
BREAKING NEWS ~ Judge confirms Moussaoui life sentence
Jeannie Shawl
May 4, 2006 10:25:00 am

US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has accepted the jury's recommendation and sentenced Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison without the possibility of release. After determining that Moussaoui was eligible for the death...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Moussaoui sentenced to life in prison
BREAKING NEWS ~ Moussaoui sentenced to life in prison
Jeannie Shawl
May 3, 2006 04:36:00 pm

The jury in the Moussaoui sentencing trial has recommended that Zacarias Moussaoui be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release. Moussaoui pleaded guilty last year to six conspiracy charges...

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Georgia became first US state to ban lynching

On December 20, 1893, Georgia became the first state in the Union to pass a law against lynching, making the act punishable by four years in prison.

The statute was not particularly effective - read the text of the 1899 pamphlet Lynch Law in Georgia by anti-lynching activist Ida Wells-Barnett.

UN Drug Trafficking Convention signed

On December 20, 1988, the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was signed in Vienna, Austria. The treaty provides mechanisms for international coordination in preventing the manufacture and distribution of drugs worldwide. Over 170 countries have signed the treaty to date.

Learn more about the treaty from the UN.

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