The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Thursday that the practice of keeping former death row inmates in solitary confinement after their death sentences have been vacated is unlawful. The plaintiffs, Craig Williams and Shawn T. Walker, are inmates in the custody of the defendant Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Both were sentenced [...]
New Gambian President Adama Barrow has confirmed through a top EU official that The Gambia will remain in the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Neven Mimica , the EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, was in The Gambia to announce a package of financial support for the country and reported the decision after meeting [...]
Romanian Justice Minister Florin Iordache, the man who originally introduced the corruption decree that sparked large protests , resigned on Thursday in the wake of protests calling for the government to resign. During his press conference , Iordache stated that since his time at the Justice Ministry began, he effectuated “only legal measures to remedy [...]
Peruvian Judge Richard Concepcion on Thursday ordered the arrest of former president Alejandro Toledo for his alleged involvement with a bribery scandal involving the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht SA . Concepcion ordered Toledo to spend up to 18 months in preventative prison while prosecutors investigate his alleged involvement in taking $20 million in bribes Odebrecht [...]
Six Democrats in the North Carolina House of Representatives filed a bill on Thursday to reverse House Bill 2 , commonly known as the “bathroom bill.” HB2 requires transgender individuals to use the restroom that corresponds with their biological sex, which is defined by the legislature as “the physical condition of being male or female, [...]
US President Donald Trump signed three executive orders on Thursday aimed at targeting drug cartels, creating a task force to reduce crime and stopping crimes against law enforcement. Attorney General Jeff Sessions presented the orders to Trump as his first act as head of the Department of Justice . Trump stressed the importance of these [...]
A former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges that he willfully retained national defense information. US officials are stating that the theft by Harold Thomas Martin may have been the largest heist of classified government information in history. Martin allegedly spent over 20 years stealing [...]
Nepal on Thursday extended the mandates of two separate commissions tasked with investigating crimes from the country’s civil war . This extension came hours before the mandates were set to expire without any cases actually having been investigated in the two-year period. The mandates have been extended for another year. However, some critics believe one [...]
The Constitutional Court of Romania declined on Thursday to rule on a controversial decree decriminalizing certain corruption offenses. The decree was introduced by the government last week and then referred to the court for review, but the ruling Social Democrats withdrew the decree two days after the referral due to massive protests. The court has [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a lower court decision blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration. In a per curiam decision, the three-judge panel held, “that the Government has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits of its appeal, nor has it shown that failure [...]
