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Saddam genocide trial resumes as prosecution continues to present case
Saddam Hussein's genocide trial [JURIST report; BBC timeline] resumed Monday at the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad with the prosecution presenting documentary evidence they say links Hussein to chemical weapons used during the 1987-88 "Anf (More) |
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Strained Iraqi criminal court orders death penalty for Libyan admitting al Qaeda ties
US military sources in Iraq announced Saturday that earlier this month the Central Criminal Court of Iraq sentenced 16 security detainees accused of terrorism law breaches, illegal weapons possession and border breaches to punishments ranging from (More) |
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Florida governor suspends all executions after botched lethal injection
Florida Governor Jeb Bush suspended all executions in the state Friday after a medical examiner said that the execution of Angel Diaz earlier this week was botched. Diaz endured a 34-minute-long execution and medical examiner Dr. William Hamilton (More) |
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Saddam defense team says Iraqi officials interfering with judiciary
Lawyers for Saddam Hussein accused Iraqi officials of interfering with judicial independence Thursday, after a number of public statements from officials that Iraq's Cassation Court, currently considering Hussein's appeal , would ultimatel (More) |
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Florida death penalty critics seek stay of executions on constitutional grounds
One day after Florida death row inmate Angel Diaz endured a 34-minute-long - and apparently painful - execution, death penalty critics filed papers with the Florida Supreme Court seeking to once again halt the death penalty in the state. Petition (More) |
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Former Ethiopia dictator convicted of genocide
Former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam was found guilty of genocide Tuesday at the conclusion of a 12-year in absentia trial. Mengistu and 72 other former officials were charged with genocide, imprisonment, homicide, and illegal confiscati (More) |
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Russian parliament extends death penalty moratorium
The Russian State Duma has effectively extended a national moratorium on the death penalty [Pravda report] until 2010 by postponing until then the establishment of jury trials in Chechnya , the only territory in Russia that still uses three-judge (More) |
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Federal court rules Michigan in contempt for failing to improve prison health care
The US District Court for the Western District of Michigan ruled Thursday that the Michigan Department of Corrections in contempt of court for failing to conform with medical care requirements mandated by the court in a prior ruling. The court or (More) |
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Supreme Court to hear antitrust, criminal appeals
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] Thursday granted certiorari in five cases , including two antitrust cases, and three criminal appeals. There are currently two other antitrust cases to be heard by the court this term. C (More) |
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Second Yemen newspaper editor convicted for printing Muhammad cartoons
A court in Yemen on Wednesday found Mohammad al-Assadi guilty of denigrating Islam and fined him 500,000 rials ($2,541) for republishing offensive cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad earlier this year. Al-Assadi, editor of the Yemen Observer , (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.
