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Georgia conducts first execution since US Supreme Court death penalty ruling
Georgia Tuesday evening carried out the first execution in the United States since the US Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection protocol and ended a de facto national moratorium on the death penalty. Both the Georgia (More) |
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9/11 suspects unlikely to go to trial before end of Bush presidency: officials
Six Guantanamo Bay detainees charged in connection with the Sept.11, 2001 terrorist attacks will probably not be put on trial by the US military before the end of the Bush administration in January 2009, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Offi (More) |
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Federal judge rejects challenge to Georgia lethal injection protocol
US District Judge Beverly Martin on Wednesday rejected a challenge to Georgia's lethal injection protocol, ruling that the state's execution procedures were similar to Kentucky's method, determined by the Supreme Court to be constitution (More) |
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Reformist Muslims need legal protection from blasphemy accusations
Farzana Hassan [president, Muslim Canadian Congress] and Tarek Fatah [founder, Muslim Canadian Congress]: "How long will it take the leadership of North America's traditional Muslim leadership to embrace the First amendment of the United Sat (More) |
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Military defense lawyer for alleged 9/11 mastermind worried about trial fairness
Navy Captain Prescott Prince [Miami Herald profile, PDF], the military-appointed lawyer for confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], has expressed concern over the fairness of his client's upcomin (More) |
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Georgia schedules execution after high court lethal injection ruling
A Georgia court has scheduled the execution of a convicted killer after the US Supreme Court last week upheld Kentucky's lethal injection protocol , ending a de facto national moratorium on the death penalty. William Earl Lynd, who was convicte (More) |
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Supreme Court lethal injection ruling a setback
Julien Ball [administrative coordinator, Campaign to End the Death Penalty]: "Back to the killing game. That is what the Supreme Court's decision upholding the method of execution known as "lethal injection" means. Thirty-five stat (More) |
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Former China Communist Party official convicted of corruption drops appeal
Convicted former top Chinese Communist Party official Chen Liangyu [People's Daily profile] has decided not to appeal his corruption conviction , Chinese media reported Tuesday. Chen was found guilty earlier this month of accepting bribes and ab (More) |
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Death penalty debate still alive after Supreme Court decision in Baze v. Rees
Richard C. Dieter [Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center]: "On April 16, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a splintered decision on the constitutionality of Kentucky's lethal injection process. Despite the seven different opinion (More) |
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Supreme Court rejects death penalty appeals after lethal injection ruling
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] Monday denied without comment petitions for certiorari filed by 10 death row inmates seeking to have their executions blocked. Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that lethal injecti (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.
