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Mukasey meets with prosecutors during first visit to Guantanamo Bay
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey [official profile; JURIST news archive] made his first visit to the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday, where he met with military and Justice Department officials working on the military prosecution (More) |
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Moussaoui lawyers say secrecy rules prevented adequate defense
Zacarias Moussaoui had his rights violated when a federal judge mandated secrecy rules that prevented his lawyers from showing him classified evidence, according to a brief asking for Moussaoui's guilty plea to be overturned. In the brief, fil (More) |
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Afghan student sentenced to death for blasphemy had no lawyer during trial
The Afghan journalism student who was sentenced to death in January for distributing papers questioning gender roles under Islamic practice told the Independent on Sunday that he was not afforded a lawyer to represent him during his four-minute cl (More) |
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California Supreme Court withdraws proposal to ease death penalty backlog
Chief Justice Ronald George of the California Supreme Court told the state's Judiciary Council on Friday that the Supreme Court is withdrawing a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at expediting death penalty appeals by allowing the Suprem (More) |
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US soldier acquitted of murder in Kirkuk Iraqi civilian killing
A military jury in Hawaii convicted US Army Specialist Christopher P. Shore on Wednesday of aggravated assault on charges stemming from the June 23, 2007 killing of an unarmed Iraqi civilian near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk , but acquitted him on charg (More) |
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Nebraska AG files motion in state supreme court to review electric chair ban
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning on Tuesday filed a motion for rehearing asking the Nebraska Supreme Court to reconsider its recent decision banning the use of the electric chair [PDF text; JURIST report]. The motion listed five errors in the (More) |
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Court-martial opens for US soldier accused in Kirkuk Iraqi civilian murder
The court-martial of US Army Specialist Christopher P. Shore began in Hawaii Tuesday for charges of third-degree murder in the June 23, 2007 killing of an unarmed Iraqi civilian near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk . Shore originally faced charges of prem (More) |
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Afghan student sentenced to death for blasphemy entitled to open appeal: justice
The Afghan journalism student who was sentenced to death in January for distributing papers questioning gender roles under Islamic practice will be provided the right to appeal his death sentence in open court, an Afghanistan Supreme Court justice (More) |
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Moussaoui constitutional rights violated in terror prosecution: lawyers
Lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui said their client's guilty plea and life prison sentence should be overturned because his constitutional rights were violated, according to court papers released Friday. The 207-page brief filed in the US Court o (More) |
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Guatemala legislature passes bill to restore death penalty
The Guatemalan Congress voted to restore the death penalty Tuesday, passing a bill that ends a six-year moratorium on executions imposed by the Constitutional Court in 2002. Under the new law, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom will have to deci (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.
