The Jamaican parliament on Tuesday voted 34-15 , with 10 abstentions, to resume the use of the death penalty. Advocates for the measure cited the country's extremely high murder rate as justification for...
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Jamaica parliament votes to resume death penalty after 20-year moratorium
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Florida judge rules gay adoption ban unconstitutional
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Russia court denies rehabilitation of Polish officers killed in Katyn massacre
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HRW report warns of Congo war crimes
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Supreme Court takes deportation cases
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Sixth Circuit allows clergy sex abuse class action against Vatican to proceed
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US to transfer Hamdan to Yemen before end of sentence: reports
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Singapore judge finds WSJ Asia in contempt of court for articles on judiciary
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Russian prosecutors indict Berezovsky on fraud, money laundering charges
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Russian prosecutors urge judge’s dismissal as journalist murder trial reopened
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A Florida trial court judge on Tuesday ruled that a Florida statute preventing same-sex couples from adopting children is unconstitutional, allowing a Florida petitioner and his partner to adopt two...
The Moscow City Court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court's decision not to legally rehabilitate captured Polish officers executed in 1940 during the Katyn massacre , in which more than 20,000 Polish Army reservists, academics and politicians...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned of possible war crimes being committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a new report released Tuesday. The rights group claims that since disputed...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases Tuesday. In United States v. Denedo , the Court will decide whether a military appellate court has jurisdiction to...
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday affirmed a lower court decision denying in part defendant's motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging that officials of the Roman Catholic Church...
Former Osama Bin Laden driver Salim Ahmed Hamdan will soon be transferred from US to Yemeni custody, according to US military sources quoted in media reports Monday. His transfer...
Singapore's High Court on Tuesday found the Wall Street Journal Asia in contempt of court over the newspaper's publication of three articles that allegedly undermined the country's judiciary. High Court Justice Tay Yong Kwang ruled...
Russia's Prosecutor General's Office on Tuesday announced the indictment of exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky for fraud and money laundering. The charges, filed under the Russian Criminal Code...
Moscow Military District Court Judge Yevgeny Zubov on Tuesday reopened to the public the trial of three men accused of murdering journalist Anna Politkovskaya amid increasing confusion and calls from prosecutors for his removal...
