Former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday after US District Court Judge Kenneth Hoyt reduced the 10 year prison term he accepted as...
Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers began his 25-year prison sentence Tuesday in the Oakdale Correctional Complex federal prison in Louisiana. In July a federal appeals court affirmed his...
Two leaders of Colombia's notorious Cali Cartel drug ring pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to charges of drug trafficking and money laundering. Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela were extradited to the US...
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said Thursday in Geneva that "the situation as far as torture is concerned in Iraq is now completely out of hand", and is so bad that "many people say that...
Lawyers for the US Department of Justice Thursday asked the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a ruling of Judge Garr King of US District Court in Portland to allow a lawsuit by...
The retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children , with the HIV virus, was adjourned Thursday after a defense lawyer did not show up...
The US House Judiciary Committee approved the Military Commissions Act Wednesday 20-19, but only after its Republican leadership harnessed enough votes to overcome an initial 20-17 vote that would have killed the legislation. Key...
An Iraqi woman who attempted to detonate a suicide bomb as part of the 2005 deadly hotel bombings in Amman was sentenced to death Thursday by a Jordanian military court. Sajida al-Rishawi was convicted along with six...
Clarence Hill , who was convicted of the 1982 murder of a police officer, was executed Wednesday in Florida after the US Supreme Court denied his request to stay the execution. Five justices voted...
A Georgia judge held a new Georgia law requiring voters to show ID cards unconstitutional in a ruling Tuesday. State Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford Jr. held that the controversial...
