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Iran executes contractor convicted of corruption
An Iranian airport customs contractor convicted of corruption has been executed and three other customs workers are scheduled to face the death penalty , according to comments from the Iranian judiciary reported by Reuters Tuesday. The convicted in (More) |
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Padilla gets 17-year prison sentence on terror charges
Jose Padilla was sentenced to 17 years and four months in prison Tuesday in connection with his conviction on terrorism-related charges. US District Judge Marcia Cooke handed down the sentence following two weeks of sentencing hearings, during wh (More) |
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North Korea still violating human rights: UN envoy
North Korea has shown no improvement in its human rights record and still systematically tortures its citizens, a UN special rapporteur said Friday. Vitit Muntarbhorn and a special UN envoy visited Japan this week to assess the impact of the Nort (More) |
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Niger charges French journalists for reporting on Tuareg rebels
Niger authorities charged two French journalists with threatening state security Wednesday, alleging that the journalists attempted to report on rebel groups in the country's volatile north region. The West African country has been in a state o (More) |
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Supreme Court weighs constitutionality of lethal injection
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments Monday in Baze v. Rees (07-5439) [docket; merit briefs] on whether the three-drug lethal injection cocktail now used in over 30 states violates the Eighth Amendment p (More) |
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Supreme Court to hear death penalty, sentencing cases
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Friday granted certiorari in six cases , including Kennedy v. Louisiana (07-343) [docket; cert. petition], in which the Supreme Court will consider whether a death sentence constitutes (More) |
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China issues anti-corruption rules for public officials
The Communist Party of China Thursday issued a list of "10 taboos" for public officials as part of the government's attempt to fight corruption ahead of a reshuffling of provincial leadership posts later this month. The rules focus o (More) |
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China executions to substitute lethal injections for gunshots
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) Thursday announced plans to phase out gunshot executions of condemned prisoners and instead switch to lethal injections . Court vice-president Jiang Xingchang said that lethal injection was a more human (More) |
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Indonesia trial of Jemaah Islamiyah terror group leader to proceed
An Indonesian court ruled Thursday that the trial of the head of Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah [CFR backgrounder; JURIST news archive] can proceed. A defense lawyer for Abu Dujana moved to dismiss the trial, arguing that the South J (More) |
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Death penalty reform in Japan has a long way to go
Maiko Taguscari [Staff attorney; researcher on penal system reform, Japan Federation of Bar Associations]: "On Dec. 7, the Ministry of Justice disclosed the names of the three death row inmates who were hanged that day, as well as the summary of (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.
