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Second UN rights expert calls on Iraq not to execute Saddam VP after faulty trial
UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Leandro Despouy has urged the Iraqi government not to execute Saddam-era Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive] because of "grave shortcomi (More) |
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Court-martial finds 101st Airborne sergeant guilty in Iraqi detainee deaths
A US military court-martial found 101st Airborne Staff Sgt. Raymond Girouard guilty of three counts of negligent homicide Friday, but not guilty of premeditated murder for the deaths of three Iraqi detainees held after a May 2006 raid in Thar Thar (More) |
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Maryland death penalty repeal bill fails
A bill to repeal the Maryland death penalty failed in the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Thursday when the committee members tied in a 5-5 vote. Swing vote Sen. Alex X. Mooney (R) voted against the bill after unsuccessfully lobbyi (More) |
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Federal appeals court rules Arizona inmate can waive death penalty challenge
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled en banc Thursday that Robert Comer, an inmate on death row, "is competent to waive further proceedings... has chosen to do so voluntarily," paving the way for Comer's desire to allo (More) |
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Iraq tribunal upholds death penalty for Saddam VP as lawyer petitions US general
The appeals chamber of the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) on Thursday upheld the death penalty for former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive], rejecting his appeal [DOC text; JURIST report] of the sentence (More) |
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Final court-martial in Samarra Iraqi detainee killings begins
Several US soldiers testified against their former squad leader Tuesday in a case relating to the killing of several Iraqi detainees after a May 9, 2006 raid in Thar Thar, a town near Samarra in Iraq's Salahuddin province. Staff Sgt. Raymond Gi (More) |
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Saddam VP asks Iraq tribunal to lift death sentence
Defense lawyers for former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive] have filed an appeal [DOC text; addendum, DOC] with the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) , asking the court to overturn Ramadan's death sente (More) |
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China chief justice reports nine top officials convicted of corruption in 2006
Chinese Chief Justice Xiao Yang reported Tuesday that nine high ranking Chinese officials were convicted by courts in 2006 as a result of China's anti-corruption campaign . In a working report to the annual session of the National People's (More) |
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China to decrease number of executions but keep death penalty
China plans to gradually lessen the number of executions it carries out while still keeping the death penalty , according to a statement released Sunday by China's Supreme People's Court, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Security , an (More) |
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North Carolina Corrections Department sues to restart state executions
The North Carolina State Department of Corrections filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina Medical Board Tuesday, alleging that recent policy changes preventing doctors' participation in lethal injections prevent the corrections department (More) |
Supreme Court upheld discriminatory districting
On June 10, 1946, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld uneven congressional districting plans in Colegrove v. Green. The case challenged an Illinois districting plan that concentrated voters into large districts in the center of the state and did not balance for population. The Court reasoned that districting was a political question for the states to decide without judicial interference. This opinion was overturned less than 20 years later in Baker v. Carr, which set judicial standards for invoking political question doctrine.
Learn more about political question doctrine from the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law.
