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CIA admits error in withholding interrogation tapes during Moussaoui trial
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has admitted that it has several recorded interrogations of suspected "enemy combatants," contrary to previous assertions. According to a letter released Tuesday, the agency mistakenly denied in c (More) |
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New Jersey legislature to consider abolishing death penalty
New Jersey Assembly speaker Joseph Roberts, Jr. said Friday that the State Assembly will vote Dec. 13 on a proposal to abolish the death penalty . If the vote passes, New Jersey would be the first state to abolish capital punishment since it was (More) |
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UN General Assembly to consider worldwide moratorium on death penalty
A resolution calling for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the death penalty has been introduced before the United Nations General Assembly. Over 70 states have backed the proposal, which will be voted on by the Assembly next week. The draft re (More) |
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Pakistan activists charged with treason for protests against emergency rule
Pakistani prosecutors on Thursday charged four activists with treason, the first such charges brought under the declaration of emergency rule implemented by President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday. The four activists, who are in detention following (More) |
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Florida Supreme Court denies stay of execution in lethal injection challenge
The Florida Supreme Court issued a 5-2 order Wednesday denying a stay of execution for death row inmate Mark Dean Schwab . The court ruled last week that the state could proceed with Schwab's execution after finding that Florida's revised (More) |
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Former Illinois governor heads to prison on corruption charges
Former Illinois Governor George Ryan headed to federal prison Wednesday morning to serve a 6 1/2-year sentence on corruption charges after the US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Ryan's request to remain free on bail while he appeals his convi (More) |
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Florida death row inmate asks state high court to rehear lethal injection decision
Florida death row inmate Ian Deco Lightbourne on Monday asked the state supreme court to reconsider its decision last week that Florida's revised lethal injection protocols do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the US (More) |
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Maryland appeals court affirms DC sniper conviction
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals Monday rejected an appeal for a new trial brought by convicted Washington, DC-area sniper John Allen Muhammad . Muhammad had appealed the lower court's rulings that he was mentally competent to stand trial, (More) |
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Supreme Court to weigh ineffective assistance of counsel in death penalty plea bargain
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday granted certiorari in Arave v. Hoffman (07-110) [docket; cert. petition, PDF] to consider whether a death row inmate in Idaho should be able to accept a plea bargain after his c (More) |
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Amnesty urges no transfer of genocide suspects to Rwanda
Amnesty International Friday urged governments worldwide not to transfer genocide suspects to Rwanda until fair trials there can be guaranteed. The human rights group is concerned about the Rwandan justice system's fairness and impartiality wit (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.
