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New Jersey Assembly passes death penalty abolition bill
The New Jersey Assembly voted 44-36 Thursday to pass a bill replacing the state current death penalty with life imprisonment. The bill now goes to New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine , who is expected to sign it. The New Jersey Senate Monday voted (More) |
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Federal appeals court strikes portions of terror groups aid ban for vagueness
Portions of the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and its 2004 amendment, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act which make it a crime to help groups considered to be terrorist organizations by the US governm (More) |
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Terror groups aid ban ruling [9th Circuit]
Humanitarian Law Project et al. v. Michael V. Mukasey, United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, December 10, 2007 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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New Jersey Senate passes death penalty abolition bill
The New Jersey Senate Monday voted 21-16 to pass a bill that would abolish the death penalty in the state and replace capital punishment with life in prison. The New Jersey Assembly is scheduled to vote on the bill Thursday , and proponents of t (More) |
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Japan names 3 executed convicts
Japanese officials executed three death row inmates Friday and publicly disclosed their identities for the first time under a new policy that the Justice Ministry of Japan says is designed to increase understanding about the death penalty. Previous (More) |
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Death penalty abolition in New Jersey could provide model for rest of US
Terry Kay Rockefeller [Member of the Board of Directors, Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation (MVFR)]: "I am a long time opponent of the death penalty, in all cases, for the fundamental reason that I do not want to be the citizen of a (More) |
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Prosecutor in Louisiana death penalty case disregarded defendant's rights
Virginia Sloan [President, The Constitution Project]: "Today, as I observed the oral arguments in Synder v. Louisiana before the United States Supreme Court, I was struck by the fact that James Williams will almost certainly never face a judge, (More) |
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Supreme Court hears jury selection, FDA regulation cases
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments Tuesday in Snyder v. Louisiana [SCOTUSwiki backgrounder; merit briefs], 06-10119, where it considered whether a prosecutor improperly excluded all black potential jur (More) |
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New Jersey Senate panel passes death penalty abolition bill
The New Jersey Senate Budget Committee Monday voted 8-4 to pass a bill designed to replace capital punishment with life in prison, paving the way for New Jersey to abolish the death penalty all together. The New Jersey Assembly is scheduled to vo (More) |
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Tennessee to delay lethal injection review pending Supreme Court decision
Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen said Thursday that the state will wait until the US Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of lethal injections before modifying the state's execution protocols in accordance with a September federal court (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.
