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China ex-prosecutor gets suspended death sentence for taking bribes
A Chinese court has sentenced former prosecutor Li Baojin to death after convicting him Wednesday of accepting bribes and embezzling money. Li was found guilty of accepting $760,000 in bribes over a 10-year period while he worked as chief prosecutor (More) |
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Federal judge sets 2009 trial date for ex-soldier charged with Mahmudiya rape-murder
A judge on the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky ruled Tuesday that former Pfc. Steven D. Green will stand trial on April 13, 2009, for his role in the March 2006 rape and murder of a 14-year old Iraqi girl and the murder of (More) |
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US executions hit 13-year low: report
The number of executions in the US in 2007 reached the lowest level in 13 years, according to the 2007 year-end report issued by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) on Tuesday. DPIC reported that there were 42 executions carried out in 200 (More) |
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UN General Assembly passes worldwide death penalty moratorium
The UN General Assembly Tuesday voted 104-54 with 29 abstentions [press release; UN debate summary] in favor of a resolution calling for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty . Though non-binding, supporters of the resolution believe interna (More) |
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Nigeria carrying out secret executions: Amnesty
Nigeria has secretly carried out at least seven state executions in recent years despite official denials, Amnesty International claimed Monday in a new report. The executed men, who were all hanged, were generally tried without representation and (More) |
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Indonesia trial of Jemaah Islamiyah terror group leader begins
The alleged head of Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) [CFR backgrounder; JURIST news archive] went to trial in Indonesia Monday. Zarkasih is charged with training and equipping JI members as well as conspiracy to commit terrorism. (More) |
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New Jersey governor signs bill abolishing death penalty
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine on Monday signed into law a bill ending the use of capital punishment , making New Jersey the first state to abolish the use of the death penalty since the US Supreme Court reinstated it nationally in 1976. The legis (More) |
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Death penalty abolition bill [New Jersey Legislature]
An Act to Eliminate the Death Penalty, December 17, 2007 . Read the full text of the bill . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Libya foreign minister denies HIV case torture claim
Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalqam Friday denied that Libya engages in torture in response to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a Palestinian doctor detained in Libya after being accused of deliberately infected hundreds of children with the H (More) |
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Palestinian doctor files French lawsuit against Gaddafi over alleged Libya torture
A Palestinian doctor detained in Libya for eight years after being accused of deliberately infected hundreds of children with the HIV virus Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi , alleging that he was tortured during his de (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.
