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Arizona high court halts lethal injection pending US Supreme Court review
The Arizona Supreme Court indefinitely stayed the execution of a man on death row Thursday, saying it will wait until the US Supreme Court reviews whether lethal injection is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment in Baze v. Rees (07-5439) [do (More) |
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Pennsylvania death penalty system likely to change after ABA study
Larry Frankel [Legislative Director, ACLU of Pennsylvania]: " ABA study found that Pennsylvania fails to comply with over 93% of the ABA's 92 recommendations designed to improve the fairness and accuracy of the death penalty. The ABA recomm (More) |
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China corruption could cause economic and political instability: report
Corruption in China's ruling Communist Party could ultimately result in political and economic destabilization within the country , according to a new report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . The report, written by Carnegie (More) |
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France ratifies European rights convention protocol to abolish death penalty
France Wednesday formally agreed to abolish the death penalty in all circumstances when it ratified a provision of the European Convention on Human Rights [text; death penalty dossier]. Since its 2003 inception, Protocol 13 , designed to allow sign (More) |
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UN rights chief urges Afghanistan to reinstate death penalty moratorium
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Tuesday urged Afghanistan to reinstate a moratorium on executions . Afghanistan executed 15 prisoners by firing squad Sunday and Arbour said that "the circumstances of the executions may (More) |
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ABA panel criticizes 'flawed' Pennsylvania death penalty system
Pennsylvania's death penalty system is so flawed that it has denied defendants of due process and could result in wrongful executions, the American Bar Association death penalty assessment team said Tuesday. The team's report [PDF text; ex (More) |
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Pennsylvania death penalty assessment report [ABA]
Evaluating Fairness and Accuracy in State Death Penalty Systems: The Pennsylvania Death Penalty Assessment Report, An Analysis of Pennsylvania's Death Penalty Laws, procedures, and Practices, American Bar Association, October 9, 2007 . Read the f (More) |
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ICTR prisoners launch hunger strike to protest Rwanda case transfers
Approximately 40 inmates in a Tanzania prison awaiting trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) began a hunger strike Monday to protest the planned transfer of three ICTR cases to the national courts of Rwanda. In September, t (More) |
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Afghanistan ends death penalty moratorium with 15 executions
Afghanistan has ended a three-year moratorium on the death penalty by executing 15 prisoners Sunday by firing squad at Pul-e-Charkhi , the country's largest prison, Afghanistan's chief of prisons said Monday. The executions are the second co (More) |
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Doctors in the Death Chamber: Where Ethics and the State Collide
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and British human and medical rights activist Dr. David Nicholl, a neurologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, says that the ethical dilemma posed by the continuing involvement of the medical profession in stat (More) |
First execution by guillotine in France
On April 25, 1792, highwayman Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person beheaded by the guillotine in France.
Learn more about the history of the guillotine.
