| Posts |
|
North Dakota faces first execution in over 100 years
A federal jury in North Dakota sentenced a man convicted of kidnapping and murdering a college student to the death penalty Friday after almost two days of deliberation. Convicted sex offender Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. was originally charged under fe (More) |
|
Florida death row inmate executed after Supreme Court refuses stay
Clarence Hill [NCADP profile; FLDOC profile], who was convicted of the 1982 murder of a police officer, was executed Wednesday in Florida after the US Supreme Court denied his request to stay the execution. Five justices voted to refuse the stay; J (More) |
|
Saddam thrown out of court after new judge appointed in Kurdish genocide trial
Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa was appointed Wednesday to preside over the second Saddam Hussein trial , replacing Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri who was removed at the Iraqi government's insistence on Tuesday. Defense lawyers walked out of th (More) |
|
Mexico president vows more extraditions of drug kingpins to US
Mexican officials are willing to begin extraditing suspected drug lords held in Mexican custody to the US to face drug charges, Mexican President Vicente Fox [official website; BBC profile] said Tuesday at a press conference in New York. On Monday, (More) |
|
Saddam genocide trial chief judge removed at government insistence
Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri was removed from presiding over the second Saddam Hussein trial on Tuesday, Al-Iraqiya state television reported. A replacement judge, who has not yet been named, has been requested by the Iraqi prime minister. A gover (More) |
|
Florida death row inmate asks Supreme Court to stay execution again
Clarence Hill [NCADP profile; FLDOC profile], a convicted murderer on death row in Florida , filed a petition Monday asking the US Supreme Court to stay his execution scheduled for Wednesday. The petition follows Friday's decision by the US Cou (More) |
|
Former Kurdish rebel testifies in Saddam genocide trial
The second Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad Monday with more testimony from prosecution witnesses in the case involving the "Anfal" operation that killed 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. One former Kurdish rebel testif (More) |
|
Jury deadlock spares white supremacist prison gang members death penalty
Two members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, previously found guilty on charges of conspiracy, murder, and racketeering in July, will now serve terms of life in prison without parole after the death penalty phase of their proceeding ended in (More) |
|
Japan cult leader faces hanging after losing appeal in subway gas attack case
The Supreme Court of Japan rejected a death penalty appeal Friday by former cult leader Shoko Asahara [BBC profile; JURIST report], who was convicted of masterminding the 1995 nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system . Asahara, the former head (More) |
|
Court-martial urged for US Marine accused in Hamdania killing: lawyer
The investigating officer presiding over preliminary hearings for a US Marine accused of kidnapping and murdering an unarmed Iraqi civilian has recommended that the Marine face court-martial on murder charges, the Marine's lawyer said Wednesday (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.
