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The Saddam Hussein Hanging: A Spectacle of Vengeance
JURIST Guest Columnist Lawrence Douglas, Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, says that the cell phone video of the Saddam Hussein execution has revealed it to be an exercise in revenge, not justice... Given that vi (More) |
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New Jersey death penalty report [NJ DPC]
New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission Report, January 2007 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Vatican, UK deputy PM deplore manner of Saddam hanging
Spokesmen for European governments Tuesday publicly deplored the way the execution of Saddam Hussein was conducted, adding criticism of the process revealed by an unofficial video - and the making of the video itself with a camera phone - to thei (More) |
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New Jersey commission recommends abolishing death penalty
A New Jersey state commission recommended Tuesday that the state abolish the death penalty, replacing it with a life sentence without the possibility of parole. A report endorsed by 12 of the 13 members of the New Jersey Death Penalty Commission c (More) |
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New UN Secretary-General promises to make Darfur top priority
New UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that resolving the crisis in Darfur was "very high" on his agenda and would be one of his top priorities. Ban, whose tenure as secretary-general officially began Monday, said that he ha (More) |
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Italy to push for global death penalty ban after Saddam execution
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi [official website; BBC profile] said Tuesday that he would push the United Nations to adopt a universal ban on the death penalty after this weekend's execution of Saddam Hussein . Italy, which assumed a two- (More) |
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Protests continue in wake of Saddam hanging
Sunnis demonstrated in the streets of Iraq Monday in continuing opposition to the Saturday execution of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive; BBC obituary], which was captured on camera phone video taken at the scene. Most notably, Sunni protestors (More) |
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Former Saddam trial judge calls execution during Eid illegal under Iraqi law
Rizgar Mohammed Amin , the Iraqi Kurdish judge who presided over the Saddam Hussein Dujail trial before resigning in early 2006 over criticisms of his handling of the case, has said that Hussein's execution violated Iraqi law banning executio (More) |
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Unruly Saddam hanging prompts Sunni protests, American anger
The unruly nature of the weekend hanging of Saddam Hussein as especially revealed by a grainy but graphic camera phone video taken at the scene prompted protest and disavowal Monday as Sunnis condemned the treatment of the ousted Iraqi president a (More) |
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Supreme Legacy: Gerald Ford and John Paul Stevens
JURIST Guest Columnist Alison Nathan of Fordham University School of Law says that one of the best and most enduring legacies of the late President Gerald Ford has been John Paul Stevens, his one Supreme Court justice whom he nominated in 1975... As (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.
