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Second US soldier pleads guilty in Mahmudiya rape-murder case
US Army Sgt. Paul E. Cortez pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in the Mahmudiya (also "Mahmoudiya") area last March. Cortez reached a plea agreement with prosecutors (More) |
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France parliament amends constitution to ban death penalty, allow impeachment
The French parliament voted Monday to amend the French Constitution to include an explicit ban on the death penalty. In a special joint session of both the National Assembly and the Senate at the Palace of Versailles, the amendment passed with a (More) |
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US Marine sentenced to 8 years in Hamdania Iraqi civilian murder case
US Marine Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington was sentenced to eight years in military prison Saturday for his role in the death of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania [USMC timeline; JURIST news archive] in April 2006. The original sentenc (More) |
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Federal judge allowing USS Cole lawsuit against Sudan to go to trial
US District Judge Robert G. Doumar has said that he will not grant the Sudanese government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of sailors killed in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole [Wikipedia backgrounder; US DOD inquiry report]. A (More) |
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Montana Senate judiciary panel backs bill to abolish death penalty
The judiciary committee of the Montana Senate endorsed a bill Thursday that would abolish the death penalty . By an 8-4 margin, the committee voted to send the SB 306 to the full state senate for consideration. Similar legislation has been introd (More) |
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New Mexico death penalty repeal bill should become law
Rep. Gail Chasey : "I am delighted and encouraged, although not surprised, that the New Mexico House of Representatives passed a bill to repeal the death penalty by 41-28 votes on Monday, February 12. This is now the second time in four years th (More) |
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Saddam VP trial unfair: UN rights expert
The trial of Saddam-era Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive] was flawed and he should not be executed, a UN Human Rights expert said Wednesday. Phillip Alston , appointed as UN Special Rapporteur on e (More) |
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Sixth US serviceman enters guilty plea in Hamdania murder case
US Marine Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of murder, kidnapping, housebreaking, larceny and conspiracy for his role in the death of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania [USMC timeline; JURIST news archi (More) |
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New Mexico House passes death penalty repeal bill
The New Mexico House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that would abolish the state death penalty . HB 190 [text; bill history] proposes replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment without possibility of release or parole. Bill sponsor (More) |
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Iraqi tribunal sentences Saddam VP to death
The Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) [official website; HRW backgrounder] sentenced former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive] to death by hanging Monday in connection with crimes against humanity committed i (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
