Not a single condemned prisoner was executed in the United States in the month of October, the first such month in nearly three years, AP reported Wednesday. Across the US, many states have declared a moratorium on lethal injection...
US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) Wednesday called on the White House to disclose hundreds of documents relating to disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff . In a letter ...
Former Assistant US Attorney Richard Convertino was acquitted Wednesday on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and making false declarations in connection with a botched 2003 terrorism trial. Convertino was the lead prosecutor in...
The Canadian Security Intelligence Services (CSIS) violated a confessed al-Qaeda operative's civil rights, according to the Security Intelligence Review Committee in an oversight report to the Canadian parliament Wednesday. Canadian citizen Mohammed Mansour Jabarah...
The US Supreme Court granted a stay of execution to a convicted murderer on Mississippi's death row Tuesday, pending the Court's decision on whether to grant certiorari in the case. Earl Wesley Berry was scheduled...
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said Friday that Serbia must do more to apprehend fugitive war crimes suspects before she can give a positive report on the country's work...
The High Administrative Court of Ukraine Thursday validated the results of the Sept. 30 parliamentary election after dismissing a legal challenge by the Communist Party of Ukraine contending the vote was invalid due...
The White House Thursday agreed to let US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and ranking Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) see classified documents pertaining to President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST...
The US Congress is taking steps to put all armed US contractors working in combat zones under the jurisdiction of the US military, according to Thursday reports. Earlier this month, the Senate included such a provision in its 2008...
The US State Department Tuesday laid down additional rules and procedures governing the operation of US private security contractors working with its personnel in Iraq. The new rules, supplementing a series of interim measures announced...
