Two Iraqi Justice Ministry guards are now being questioned in connection with the taping and release of a camera phone video showing the execution of Saddam Hussein , according to Iraqi lawmaker Sami al-Askeri. Iraqi officials said Wednesday that an official who supervised the execution was also arrested in connection to making the video, but [...]
Members of the 110th Congress sworn in Thursday are preparing for votes on numerous pieces of key legislation scheduled by incoming Democratic leaders of the new US House of Representatives for their first 100 legislative hours in office beginning next Tuesday. Most notably, incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and incoming House Majority [...]
The executions of two Saddam Hussein co-defendants, former chief judge of Iraq's Hussein-era Revolutionary Court Awad Hamed al-Bandar and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti , have been postponed. The hangings were originally expected Thursday , but an official in Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office said the delay was the result of [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Lawrence Douglas, Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, says that the cell phone video of the Saddam Hussein execution has revealed it to be an exercise in revenge, not justice… Given that virtually everything associated with America’s woebegone invasion of Iraq has turned into an unmitigated disaster, was [...]
Detainees Positive Responses, US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), September 2004, released in response to a FOIA request by the American Civil Liberties Union, January 2, 2007 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission Report, January 2007 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Lawyers representing Awad Hamed al-Bandar , former chief judge of Iraq's Saddam Hussein-era Revolutionary Court, and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti Wednesday mounted last-minute legal challenges to prevent their clients' executions, currently expected to take place Thursday before dawn. Both men were convicted and sentenced to death in November alongside Hussein for [...]
Richard Causey , former Enron chief accounting officer, has reported to the Bastrop Federal Correction Institution , a low-security facility in Texas, to begin serving his prison sentence for his role in the Enron accounting scandal . Causey was sentenced to 66 months last November after accepting a plea deal and was required to turn [...]
US ambassador-at-large for war crimes Clint Williamson told a Sarajevo newspaper in an interview published Tuesday that the United States would consider it "absolutely unacceptable" for fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic to be tried in a Serbian court in Belgrade if they are caught after the mandate of [...]
US forces left security during Saddam Hussein's execution to Iraqi authorities Saturday but would have handled the hanging "differently", US Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said during a press conference in Baghdad Wednesday. Caldwell said that US-led coalition forces transported Saddam to the execution site, left him in the care of Iraqi authorities, and then withdrew [...]
