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China implements new death penalty review procedures
The Supreme Court of China and the country's Ministry of Justice have released new rules to clarify China's death penalty review procedures, state media reported Friday. Under the new system, three Supreme Court judges must review all death (More) |
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Federal appeals court rejects Georgia death sentence challenge
The US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a Georgia death row inmate's challenge to the state's method of execution Tuesday, ruling that he had missed the statute of limitations to file. Samuel David Crowe was convicted of murder a (More) |
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Defense lawyers for 9/11 detainees seek to delay arraignments
Military defense lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay detainees allegedly behind the Sept. 11 attacks are attempting to delay their clients' arraignments, currently scheduled for June 5. They allege the US government has interfered with the def (More) |
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Afghan journalism student appeals death sentence for blasphemy
An Afghan appeals court heard testimony Sunday from journalism student Sayad Parwaz Kambaksh , who was sentenced to death in January for distributing papers questioning gender roles under Islam. Kambaksh denied the accusations in front of a three-j (More) |
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed defense lawyers move to dismiss charges
US military defense lawyers filed a motion Friday to dismiss charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the alleged director of the Sept. 11 attacks , and his four co-conspirators. The motion alleges that the charges (More) |
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Alleged 9/11 plotters scheduled for June military commission arraignment
US military judge Col. Ralph Kohlmann set June 5 as the tentative date for the military commission's arraignment of the five men charged with plotting the Sept. 11 attacks in an email to military defense attorneys Wednesday. The group, held at (More) |
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DOD stalling on security clearances for civilian Guantanamo lawyers: ACLU
The US Department of Defense has still not issued security clearances to civilian lawyers seeking to participate in the defense of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and other detainees held at Guantan (More) |
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Pentagon approves death penalty charges for 5 alleged 9/11 conspirators
Death penalty charges against Guantanamo detainees Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and four other men allegedly involved in planning the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States have been confirmed by the Con (More) |
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US military drops charges against so-called '20th hijacker'
The US Department of Defense has dropped criminal charges against Mohammad al-Qahtani, a Saudi Arabian citizen being held at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay . Al-Qahtani was known as the "20th hijacker" for his alleged role in (More) |
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Medellín execution violates ICJ decision in Avena
Rick Kirgis [Secretary, American Society of International Law]: "If the state of Texas goes ahead with the planned execution of José Ernesto Medellín without allowing him any judicial reconsideration of his murder conviction and hi (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.
