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BREAKING NEWS ~ Marines charged with murder in Hamdania Iraqi civilian killing
The US Marine Corps on Wednesday charged seven Marines and one Navy corpsman with murder and kidnapping in connection to the April 26 death of an Iraqi man outside his home in Hamdania. The eight men allegedly dragged an Iraqi civilian outside of h (More) |
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Saddam, co-defendants go on hunger strike to protest latest lawyer murder
Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants have begun a hunger strike to protest the abduction and murder of a defense team lawyer in Baghdad early Wednesday morning. Leading defense counsel Khalil al-Dulaimi said the defendants would end their st (More) |
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Saddam defense lawyer killed after abduction
A defense lawyer in the Saddam Hussein trial was abducted and killed Wednesday, just two days after the prosecution presented their closing arguments in the trial, calling for the death penalty for Hussein and four of his co-defendants. Khamis al (More) |
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Barbados wants Caribbean high court to reinstate death penalty
The Barbados government on Tuesday asked the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to overturn a legal precedent that blocks capital punishment in an effort to impose the death penalty on two convicted murderers. Jeffrey Joseph and Lennox Boyd were bo (More) |
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FBI botched pre-9/11 Moussaoui investigation at all levels: DOJ report
The Federal Bureau of Investigation encountered "numerous systemic problems" during its investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks , "ranging from poor individual performance to more substantial syste (More) |
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Saddam prosecutors demand death penalty in closing arguments
The prosecution in the Saddam Hussein trial presented closing arguments Monday, calling for the death penalty for Hussein, his half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court Awad Hamed al-Bander, and former senior reg (More) |
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Attorneys for Hamandiya Marines allege coercion in probe
Defense attorneys representing two US Marines accused of killing an Iraqi civilian in Hamandiya this spring claim that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service interrogated their clients under coercive conditions, including making threats about the (More) |
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Kentucky high court rules inmate can be executed despite mental age questions
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that, despite a 2005 US Supreme Court ruling [JURIST report; opinion PDF] barring the death penalty for juveniles, the mental age of a death row inmate could not be invoked to stop the state from carrying (More) |
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Supreme Court allows death row lethal injection challenge to proceed
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] handed down decisions in two cases Monday, including Hill v. McDonough [Duke Law case backgrounder; JURIST report], where the Court held that a death row inmate can challenge the constitut (More) |
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Alabama death penalty assessment report [ABA]
Alabama Death Penalty Assessment Report, American Bar Association, June 11, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (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.
