A Pakistan anti-terrorism court in the Swat region sentenced 10 men to life in prison on Thursday for their involvement in the 2012 attack on education activist Malala Yousafzai . Yousafzai, then 15, was shot in the head on her school bus on her way home from school, and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had claimed [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist John D. Bessler, of the University of Baltimore School of Law, discusses new changes in the evolution of capital punishment… Increasingly, US death penalty states are no longer content to have just one method of execution on the books. Instead, with a persistent shortage of lethal injection drugs, fueled in part by [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Wednesday. In Glossip v. Gross the court heard arguments on whether Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment . The case originated when four death row inmates filed a complaint against the director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections for the use [...]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that courts have authority to review whether the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has fulfilled its duty under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to attempt conciliation. Additionally, the court ruled that the appropriate scope of judicial review of the EEOC’s conciliation activities is narrow, [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday in Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar that states may ban judicial candidates from personally soliciting campaign donations. In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court found that such restrictions do not violate the First Amendment . Roberts wrote: Judges are not politicians, even when they come [...]
The Giza Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced 69 Muslim Brotherhood supporter to 25 years in prison for attacking and burning a church in a village near Cairo in 2013 during protests against former president Mohamed Morsi . In addition, Judge Mohamed Nagi Shehata also sentenced two other juvenile defendants to 10 years in prison without [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Wednesday restricted bans on blood donations from homosexual men. Since 1983, France automatically and permanently banned blood donations from all men who had ever had sex with another man, calling it a measure of safety against spreading the HIV virus. This ban was seen by many critics as [...]
A Dutch appellate court ruled Wednesday that Gen. Thom Karremans, who ordered Bosnian Muslims away from a UN peacekeeping compound during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre , will not be prosecuted. Karremans, along with two other soldiers, faced charges for forcing three Bosnian Muslim men to leave the UN compound during the massacre, which ultimately led [...]
Eight convicted drug smugglers were executed in Indonesia early Wednesday despite international criticism and pleas for clemency. Among those executed by firing squad were Australian nationals Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, part of the so-called “Bali Nine,” who were arrested in 2005 for recruiting seven others to smuggle heroin from Indonesia into Australia. Also executed [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on same-sex marriage . The court heard two-and-half hours of oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges , which was consolidated with three other cases. The first question before the court was “Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to license a marriage between two people of the [...]
