US and Iraqi officials disagreed strongly over legal procedures and interpretations in the run-up to the December 30 hanging of Saddam Hussein , the New York Times reported Sunday. Disagreements were reported very soon after the hanging, but the latest revelations provide new insight into their extent and severity. In the face of Iraqi insistence [...]
The Cambodian People's Party (CPP) , the ruling party of Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen , urged critics of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Sunday to adopt "more balanced views on their stands and activities" and to refrain from "trying to blackmail judiciary system, sovereignty and nation honor and distort [...]
Background checks and records on William J. Rehnquist, US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), released January 4, 2007 . Read parts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday his government might have to review relations with countries that criticized Saddam Hussein's execution , calling last Friday's hanging a domestic affair. In a speech in Baghdad celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the Iraqi army, he said, according to Iraq's independent VOI news agency:he Iraqi government [...]
US Marines Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich shot five unarmed Iraqi civilians ordered out of a white taxi after his unit took casualties in a roadside bombing in Haditha last November, according to a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) report obtained by the Washington Post. The Post reported Saturday that Iraqi eyewitnesses saw Marines order [...]
The US Supreme Court Friday granted certiorari in seven cases , including a capital case, an endangered species case, and two labor-related cases among others. In the Texas death row case Panetti v. Quarterman (06-6407) , the Court will determine whether it is unconstitutional to execute an mentally ill individual who has a delusion about [...]
Umran Javed, a British Muslim, was convicted of incitement to murder and race hatred Friday after leading a February 2006 protest against the publication of satirical Danish cartoons depicting Muhammad outside the Danish Embassy in London. Javed was taped leading the chant, "Bomb, bomb, Denmark, bomb, bomb USA." He testified that it was just a [...]
Revised charges against a group of Guantanamo Bay prisoners will be drawn up by the US military by February, with first evidence to be presented by this summer according to the chief prosecutor for the commissions speaking to Reuters Friday. US Air Force Colonel Moe Davis cautioned that the timetable could change as the judicial [...]
FBI records released Thursday shed light upon late US Chief Justice William Rehnquist's public battle with prescription drug dependency in the early 1980s. The records reveal that he was prescribed a powerful sleeping aid when he was an associate justice, which he took for over a decade. Rehnquist also took Placidyl to alleviate chronic back [...]
The Death Penalty in 2006: Year-End Report, Death Penalty Information Center, December 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
