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No verdict date set in Saddam Dujail case
The Iraqi High Tribunal convened briefly Monday and announced that the next hearing on the crimes against humanity charges brought against Saddam Hussein will be on November 5, though the court refused to say whether a verdict will be handed down (More) |
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US citizen facing Iraqi death penalty challenges impending transfer
Lawyers have filed an emergency motion [PDF text; declaration, PDF] in federal court to prevent the US military from surrendering translator and accused kidnapper Mohammad Munaf, a US citizen, to Iraqi officials to face the death penalty. Munaf was (More) |
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Date for Hussein Dujail verdict to be announced Monday
Jaafar al-Mussawi, chief prosecutor in the trial of Saddam Hussein , said Sunday that court proceedings will not resume Monday as scheduled. The Iraqi High Tribunal is instead expected to announce the date the verdict against Hussein and his co-d (More) |
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Rwanda ruling party announces support for death penalty abolition
The ruling party of Rwanda announced Friday that it had directed its lawmakers to support a forthcoming bill to abolish the death penalty . Leaders of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) voted to take the action last weekend at a meeting chaired by (More) |
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India, Pakistan pressed to abolish death penalty
A prominent South Asian rights group has urged India and Pakistan to abolish the death penalty since it is a "violation of the right to life." South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) , headed by former Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Guj (More) |
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India high court says presidential death row pardons subject to review
The Supreme Court of India Wednesday ruled that the power of the country's president to pardon a person convicted of a capital offense in Article 72 of the Indian Constitution is subject to judicial review in the face of "extraneous consi (More) |
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David Hicks and the US Military Commissions Process: Next Steps
JURIST Guest Columnist Don Rothwell of ANU College of Law, Australian National University, says that while passage of the new Military Commissions Act in the United States presents new challenges for Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks, it als (More) |
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Supreme Court to reconsider death penalty for Texas murderer
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] announced Friday that it will reconsider the death penalty sentence of LaRoyce Lathair Smith, convicted of murdering a 19-year-old Dallas Taco Bell manager in 1991. The Court initiall (More) |
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Saddam lawyer predicts 'unmitigated chaos' if client executed
Ramsey Clark , former US Attorney General and a member of the Saddam Hussein defense team, predicted Thursday that the execution of the former Iraqi dictator would lead to "catastrophic violence" and "total, unmitigated chaos." (More) |
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Two Marines plead not guilty to Hamdania murder, kidnapping charges
Two US Marines charged with the death of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of murder and kidnapping. Pfc. John Jodka and Cpl. Marshall Magincalda are the first of eight soldiers from the Camp Pendleton military (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.
