Iraqi television is reporting that Saddam Hussein has been executed. The hanging, reported by US-operated al-Hurra TV as having taken place around 6 AM Saturday local time (10 PM Friday ET), fulfills the death sentence handed down by the Iraqi High Tribunal last month following the former dictator's conviction on charges of crimes against humanity. [...]
A US federal judge has rejected an eleventh-hour bid by lawyers for Saddam Hussein seeking a direct stay of execution. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a 6-page ruling late Friday evening following a telephone conference with lawyers in the wake of court papers filed around 1 PM Friday afternoon. Kollar-Kotelly wrote:As Judge Reggie Walton [...]
Iraqi officials have said that final preparations are underway for the execution by hanging of Saddam Hussein before 6 AM local Baghdad time (10 PM Friday ET). Observers eligible to witness the execution have been told to be in attendance by 5:30 AM local time and are said to be already gathering in Baghdad's fortified [...]
A three-judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday rejected an amicus brief filed by seven retired judges who argued that portions of the new Military Commissions Act affecting Guantanamo detainees were unconstitutional on the grounds that the brief's description of the amici as "judges" was inappropriate. Citing Advisory Opinion No. 72 [...]
An Iraqi judge on the appeals bench of the Iraqi High Tribunal that earlier this week rejected Saddam Hussein's appeal of his November death sentence for crimes against humanity said Friday that Hussein would be executed "today or tomorrow," adding to the prevailing confusion about when and even if the ousted Iraqi dictator will be [...]
State-run television in Iran has reported that Iranian Minister of Justice Jamal Karimi-Rad has died in a car accident . While details have been sparse, it is believed that Karimi-Rad’s son was driving when their car collided with a truck as the family was traveling south of Tehran to the central city of Isfahan. Karimi-Rad’s [...]
The top Iraqi defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Friday that US authorities have asked the defense team to pick up Hussein's personal belongings in preparation for a reportedly-imminent transfer of the ousted Iraqi president to Iraqi officials for execution. Khalil al-Dulaimi told AP, however, that he had not yet given permission for anyone to [...]
Lawyers for Saddam Hussein have reached across the Atlantic in last-ditch legal bids to stop US authorities from handing their client over to Iraqi officials for expected execution . On Wednesday, UK-based Saddam defense lawyer Giovanni di Stefano asked the Washington DC-based Inter-American Human Rights Commission for urgent interim measures against the US under Rule [...]
The State of California has decided not to appeal a December 21st decision of the California 1st District Court of Appeal restoring voting rights to approximately 100,000 inmates serving a year or less for felony convictions in local jails. The case, filed by the League of Women Voters of California and other voter and prisoner [...]
The US Department of Justice reported Thursday that incidents of intimate partner violence in the United States have declined in recent years . The study was conducted by the DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics , and analyzed crime rates from 1993 to 2004. While the overall rate of nonfatal intimate partner violence was 5.8 victimizations [...]
