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Charleston church shooter guilty plea offer rejected by government
The government refused a plea offer from accused white supremacist Dylann Roof on Friday. Roof, the man charged with killing nine black church members attending Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, offered to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of (More) |
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Putting the 2016 Capital Punishment Ballot Initiatives in Perspective
JURIST Guest Columnist John H. Blume of Cornell Law School discusses the current state of the death penalty in the United States...On November 8th, voters in three states endorsed "pro-death penalty" measures. In Nebraska, an initiative asking voters (More) |
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Federal appeals court affirms dismissal of Oklahoma botched execution case
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of a case involving the 2014 botched execution of Clayton Lockett, a death row inmate in Oklahoma. Lockett's brother filed suit against the state of Oklahoma , through (More) |
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China court sentences former deputy minister to 4 years for bribery
Former Chinese Deputy Minister, Zhang Liju, was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison after having been convicted of taking 2.4 million yuan ($354000.58 USD) in bribes. The Beijing Second Intermediate Court handed down the sentence along wit (More) |
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Voters in three states reaffirm death penalty
The legal status of the death penalty was upheld in three state referendums Tuesday. Oklahoma citizens voted in favor of State Question No. 776, which will add an explicit protection of the death penalty to the state constitution. Oklahoma will be (More) |
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Palestine constitutional court allows president to revoke lawmaker immunity
The Palestinian Constitutional Court ruled Sunday that President Mahmoud Abbas can revoke the parliamentary immunity of lawmakers, which will allow him to expel various political opponents. The ruling upheld Abbas' 2012 revocation of Mohammad Dahlan' (More) |
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Supreme Court grants stay of execution for Alabama inmate
The US Supreme Court issued an order on Thursday granting a last-minute stay of execution just as state officials in Alabama were preparing to execute Thomas Douglas Arthur by lethal injection. The application for the stay was presented to Justice (More) |
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Federal appeals court rejects challenge to Ohio execution secrecy law
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday threw out a challenge to Ohio's execution secrecy law. Under HB 663 , the identity of individuals and entities that participate in the lethal injection process is treated as confidential an (More) |
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Pakistan top court blocks execution of mentally ill convict
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday blocked the execution of a murder convict who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2012. The order is pending reconsideration of an earlier ruling that held that Imdad Ali's condition was not a perman (More) |
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Kenya president commutes all capital sentences
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday commuted the sentences of all death row inmates to life in prison. The last execution in Kenya took place in 1987, though there were 2,655 male and 92 female death row inmates at the time of the commutation (More) |
Senate approves purchase of Alaska
On April 9, 1867, the U.S. Senate voted to ratify the Treaty with Russia for the Purchase of Alaska and thereby approve the purchase of the territory from Russia for $7.2 million. Initially, the purchase was made to keep Alaska away from the British. It was politically unpopular with many Americans who denounced it is "Seward's Folly", after U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, who had lobbied for the purchase. Seward was later vindicated by the discovery of gold and oil in Alaska.
Learn more about the Alaska Purchase from the U.S. State Department.
