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Alleged Equatorial Guinea coup plotter accuses Thatcher of coup involvement
British national Simon Mann [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], accused of participating in an alleged coup attempt against Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in 2004, has accused Sir Mark Thatcher of being involved in the (More) |
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Federal appeals court backs new sentencing hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal [advocacy website; Philadelphia Inquirer archive], convicted in 1982 of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner after a traffic stop, may escape the death penalty after the US Court of (More) |
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Pakistan: new PM's order to release ousted judges is denunciation of Musharraf
Baseer Naveed [senior researcher, Asian Human Rights Commission]: "The election of Mr. Mohammad Yousaf Raza Gillani as prime minister of Pakistan is itself a threat of the old regime of President General (retired) Musharraf and even his very exi (More) |
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Nebraska legislature rejects death penalty ban
A Nebraska bill that would have banned the death penalty, replacing it with a sentence of life in prison without parole, failed in the Nebraska Legislature on Tuesday, receiving only 20 of the 25 necessary votes to move forward. Last month, the Ne (More) |
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Maryland General Assembly backs death penalty review commission
The Maryland General Assembly has passed legislation to establish the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment, which would study the implementation and execution of the death penalty in that state. The state House approved HB 1111 by a 89-48 vot (More) |
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UN rights envoy urges Guatemala Congress against reinstating death penalty
UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston Tuesday urged Guatemalan lawmakers not to override a presidential veto of a bill that would restore the country's death penalty in a way he said would be co (More) |
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Saudi Arabia should adopt written penal code: HRW
Saudi Arabia should enact a written penal code to protect the rights of criminal suspects and minors, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday in two reports released after a year-long HRW investigation into the Saudi Arabian justice system uncovered (More) |
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ABA president expresses 'grave concern' over military commission process
American Bar Association (ABA) President William H. Neukom said in an op-ed published on the ABA website Monday that American lawyers are "deeply troubled by six death penalty cases" being tried by the military commissions process at Gua (More) |
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Mahmudiya rape-murder case against ex-US soldier belongs in federal court: prosecutors
Former US Army Pfc. Steven D. Green should be prosecuted in civilian court under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act , and not under the military system of justice as urged by the defense, federal prosecutors argued in a motion filed lat (More) |
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Supreme Court overturns Louisiana death sentence in race-based jury challenge case
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] ruled Wednesday that a Louisiana death sentence should be overturned because the trial judge "committed clear error" in ruling on the defendant's objection to a prosecution p (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.
