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US government not seeking death penalty in ex-Guantanamo detainee civilian trial
US Attorney General Eric Holder told federal prosecutors in a letter released Monday that the US government will not seek the death penalty for a former Guantanamo detainee now facing a civilian trial. Tanzanian national Ahmed Ghailani [GlobalSecur (More) |
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Ohio governor issues execution reprieves in order to review lethal injection process
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland on Monday issued a temporary reprieve of two scheduled executions in order to give officials an opportunity to review the lethal injection procedures employed by the state. The reprieve comes after an unsuccessful leth (More) |
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Ohio must halt executions until they are correctly and humanely administered under the law
Jeffrey M. Gamso [Partner, Gamso, Helmick & Hoolahan, on behalf of the Cleveland Coalition Against the Death Penalty]: "Ohio is now uniquely in the position of three badly botched executions in the just over three years. On May 2, 2006, it (More) |
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Federal judge delays Ohio execution after failed attempt
A federal judge on Friday delayed the execution of Ohio death row inmate Romell Broom, following several failed attempts at administering a lethal injection on Tuesday. Judge Gregory Frost of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (More) |
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Virginia court sets November execution date for DC sniper
A Virginia court on Wednesday set a November 10 execution date for John Allen Muhammad , who was convicted of murder in 2005 for his role in a series of DC-area sniper shootings . Prosecutors had sought to schedule the execution for Monday, Novembe (More) |
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Japan urged to discontinue executing mentally ill prisoners
Japan continues to execute mentally ill prisoners despite a criminal code provision outlawing the practice, according to a report released Thursday by Amnesty International (AI) . According to the report, while the exact number of prisoners with (More) |
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Federal judge sentences ex-US soldier to life in Mahmudiya rape-murder case
Former US soldier Steven Green was sentenced Friday to five consecutive life terms in prison for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenage girl and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya. A federal jury in the US District Court for the Western Distri (More) |
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Two-thirds of China organ transplants from executed prisoners: official
Chinese Vice-Minister of Health Huang Jiefu estimated Wednesday that 65 percent of organs transplanted in China are from executed prisoners [China Daily report], contradicting the official posture that China has maintained for years. Huang's st (More) |
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Federal judge rules lawyers for Guantanamo detainee may question 9/11 conspirator
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted lawyers for another Guantanamo Bay detainee permission to question Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attac (More) |
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China high court ex-vice president to face corruption charges
The Communist Party of China (CPC) revoked the membership of the former vice-president of the Supreme People's Court on Friday, following a graft and corruption investigation. Huang Songyou, who was originally appointed to the Supreme People (More) |
WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban
On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans.
Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.
