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Meeting international obligations would pose only light burden in Medellin case
Richard C. Dieter [Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center]: "There is no question that treaties that have been signed and ratifed by the U.S. government are the "law of the land" and can be binding on states with the same (More) |
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Medellin death penalty case exposes hollow Texas brand of gunslinger politics
Bryan McCann [Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Austin, TX Chapter]: "Two years ago, a fellow anti-death penalty activist and I participated in a public debate on the University of Texas campus with the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT). No o (More) |
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Fifth Circuit denies emergency stay of execution pending civil challenge
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday denied an emergency stay for a Mississippi death row inmate challenging the state's lethal injection procedure. The court found that Dale Leo Bishop failed to est (More) |
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Military law could change Supreme Court ruling on death penalty for child rape
Louisiana state prosecutors on Monday petitioned the US Supreme Court to reconsider its June decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana [Duke Law backgrounder; JURIST report], where it found that imposing the death sentence for child rape where the victim w (More) |
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Indonesia Supreme Court rejects third appeal by Bali bombers
The Indonesian Supreme Court Thursday rejected the third appeal made by Mukhlas, Imam Samudra and Amrozi Nurhasyim of their convictions for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings . Lawyers for the three said they had been denied an earlier opportunity (More) |
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ICJ to rule on Mexico petition to halt US executions of foreign nationals
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that next week it will rule on a Mexican petition asking to delay the executions of five Mexicans on death row in the US. Mexican authorities allege that US officials denied the five men the chan (More) |
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Virginia lethal injection procedure does not violate Constitution: federal appeals court
The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled . Thursday that Virginia's method of execution by lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Virginia death row inmate Christopher Scott Emmett ha (More) |
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Federal appeals court orders hearing on death row inmate mental retardation claim
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday ordered a federal court to hold an evidentiary hearing to consider whether a man sentenced to death for murder might be mentally retarded. After Michael Wayne Hall was convicted of the 199 (More) |
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US delaying payment to Guantanamo lawyers: ACLU
The US government is preventing the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from paying lawyers defending Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects on trial before US military commissions , ACLU director Anthony Romero said Tuesday. Lawyers for the group' (More) |
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Equatorial Guinea court convicts British ex-officer for coup attempt
A court in Equatorial Guinea Monday convicted British national Simon Mann [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for his involvement in an alleged 2004 coup attempt against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo . Mann was sentenced to 34 years in pri (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.
