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Medics worldwide urged not to participate in lethal injections
Amnesty International Thursday urged medical professionals worldwide to refrain from participating in executions. In a new report [text; press release] examining the practice of execution by lethal injection , Amnesty said doctors and nurses break (More) |
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Texas appeals court halts lethal injection execution
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stayed the lethal injection execution of an inmate who was scheduled to be put to death Wednesday, giving state officials 30 days to answer questions about whether lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusua (More) |
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US Supreme Court stays Texas execution after agreeing to hear lethal injection case
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] issued a stay of execution Thursday for a a Texas inmate just hours before he was scheduled to be executed. Earlier this week, the Court granted certiorari in Baze v. Rees (07-5439) [doc (More) |
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Pausing the Machinery of Death: The Supreme Court Takes Baze
JURIST Guest Columnist Alison Nathan of Fordham University School of Law says that in the wake of the US Supreme Court's grant of certiorari in the Baze v. Rees Kentucky lethal injection case, the pending executions of inmates who have brought si (More) |
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Italy PM calls for global death penalty moratorium
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi urged all nations to institute a moratorium on capital punishment in an address delivered to the UN General Assembly Tuesday. Prodi said that such action would mark great progress in ethics and that:A United Nat (More) |
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Texas executes inmate despite pending Supreme Court lethal injection review
Texas continued with the lethal injection execution of a convicted murderer Tuesday, despite the US Supreme Court's grant of certiorari in a case reviewing whether the method is cruel and unusual and therefore unconstitutional. On Tuesday, the (More) |
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Iraqi defense lawyers no longer protected by US
Giovanni Di Stefano [lawyer for Ali Hassan al-Majid, dubbed "Chemical Ali", Studio Legale Internazionale, Rome]: "Al-Majid and 14 other former Saddam Hussein-era officials are on trial for their role in the government's violent res (More) |
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Supreme Court takes 17 cases for October Term 2007
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday granted certiorari in 17 cases for the October Term 2007, among them notable cases dealing with lethal injection, voter ID laws and subsequently seized evidence. In Baze v. Ree (More) |
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ABA urges death penalty moratorium in Ohio
The American Bar Association death penalty assessment team has recommended a moratorium on the death penalty in Ohio, in a report [PDF text; executive summary, PDF] released Monday that cited major flaws in the state's administration of capita (More) |
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'Chemical Ali' ordered executions: court testimony
Saddam Hussein's cousin and former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], also known as Chemical Ali, ordered the execution of 25 villagers at a time as he crushed a Shi'a uprising in southern Iraq fo (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.
