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Kentucky judge orders public hearings on lethal injection methods
A Kentucky judge on Wednesday ordered the state to hold public hearings on its lethal injection protocol, which the state changed two years ago after two death row inmates challenged it as a form of cruel and unusual punishment. Though the Kentuck (More) |
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UK court approves extradition of British terror suspects to US
The UK High Court ruled Thursday that two British citizens charged with terrorism offenses can be extradited to the US to face terrorism charges. Haroon Rashid Aswat [Wikipedia profile; JURIST report], wanted in the US on suspicion of setting up a (More) |
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China executes Christian sect leaders accused of killings
Chinese authorities have executed the founder of a Chinese Christian church and two of his close associates for allegedly ordering the murders of several members of a rival religious sect, a lawyer for Xu Shuangfu said Wednesday. The death penalty (More) |
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Kentucky lethal injection ruling [KY SC]
Baze v. Rees, Supreme Court of Kentucky, November 22, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Kentucky Supreme Court upholds lethal injection protocol
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state's use of a three-drug lethal injection does not violate the constitution because the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment "does not require a complete absence of pain." (More) |
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Marine claims Navy investigators blocked access to lawyer in Hamdania murder case
Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington, one of several US Marines facing court-martial in connection with the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania [USMC timeline; JURIST news archive], told a military court Monday that agents from the Nav (More) |
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Saddam Dujail trial 'fundamentally unfair': HRW
Saddam Hussein's trial for crimes against humanity committed in Dujail was "fundamentally unfair" and the guilty verdict lacks legitimacy due to procedural and substantive flaws, according to a report [text; press release] released by (More) |
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Pakistan president overrules Sharia court, commutes death sentence for UK man
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf [official website, BBC profile] has overturned a ruling by a Sharia court for the first time by commuting the sentence of a man whom the court assigned the death penalty. Mirza Tahir Hussain , a British national (More) |
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US soldier sentenced to life imprisonment in Mahmudiya rape-murder case
US Army Spc. James P. Barker, who pleaded guilty Wednesday for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in the Mahmudiya (also "Mahmoudiya") area in March, was sentenced Thursday to no more than 90 yea (More) |
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Guantanamo military commissions chief resigns
John Altenburg , appointed in 2003 by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to oversee the military commissions [official website; JURIST news archive] trying terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay , has resigned his post as Appointing Authority and re (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.
