| Posts |
|
Nebraska Supreme Court refuses to reconsider electric chair ban
The Nebraska Supreme Court Wednesday rejected a motion for rehearing filed by state Attorney General Jon Bruning asking the court to reconsider its February ruling [PDF text; JURIST report] that execution by electric chair is "cruel and unusu (More) |
|
Military defense lawyer appointed for alleged 9/11 mastermind
The US Department of Defense has assigned Navy Captain Prescott Prince [Miami Herald profile, PDF] to defend confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] before a US military commission, the Miami Herald re (More) |
|
Ohio lethal injection protocols sufficiently prevent pain during executions: doctor
The anesthetic dosage delivered under Ohio's lethal injection protocol is sufficient to prevent the condemned inmate from suffering during an execution, according to Tuesday testimony from an anesthesiologist during a court hearing on the const (More) |
|
Ohio lethal injection protocols less humane than animal euthanasia: doctor
Ohio's lethal injection procedures fall short of standards used to euthanize animals, according to Monday testimony from an anesthesiologist before a court hearing on the constitutionality of Ohio's death penalty procedure . Dr. Mark Heath (More) |
|
Flag of Convenience? Bush Administration Toutings of International Law
JURIST Guest Columnist John Cerone of New England School of Law says that while we are accustomed to seeing the US president wrap himself in the US flag to avoid the restraints of international law, his posture in recent cases reveals that he occasio (More) |
|
Nigeria rebel charged with treason for alleged coup plot
The Nigerian Federal High Court on Friday formally charged rebel Henry Okah with treason based on an alleged coup plot. Okah, a member of the militant Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) , was arrested and charged in Angola in Septem (More) |
|
Montana death row inmate files challenge against lethal injection procedures
A Montana death row inmate filed a lawsuit [PDF complaint; press release] Thursday asserting that the lethal injection protocol used by Montana's Department of Corrections constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under both Article 2 of the Mont (More) |
|
Law groups to underwrite defense of 'high value' Guantanamo detainees
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers announced in a joint statement Thursday that they have teamed up to provide experienced defense attorneys to defend seven or more specific detainees (More) |
|
Virginia governor stays all state executions pending US Supreme Court ruling
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine Tuesday issued a stay of all executions in the state until the US Supreme Court rules in Baze v. Rees (07-5439) [docket; merit briefs], a case challenging the constitutionality of using lethal injection as a method (More) |
|
Guantanamo detainee charged in 1998 US African embassy attacks
The US Department of Defense Monday charged [DOD press release; charge sheet, PDF] Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani with several terrorism-related counts under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 stemming from his alleged involveme (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.
