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ABA calls for death penalty moratorium in Alabama
The American Bar Association death penalty assessment team recommended a moratorium on the death penalty in Alabama in a report [DOC text; executive summary, DOC] released Sunday that cited major flaws in the state's administration of capital (More) |
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Canadian Anti-Terror Law on Trial: The Toronto Terrorism Arrests
JURIST Guest Columnist Kent Roach of the University Toronto Faculty of Law says that proceedings against the 17 Canadian men and youths recently charged with terrorism-related offenses in Ontario will put Canada's new Anti-Terrorism Act to its f (More) |
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Oklahoma becomes fifth state to allow executions of repeat child molesters
Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry on Friday signed SB 1800 , a law which enlarges the scope of the death penalty to cover a second or subsequent sexual offense against a child under the age of 14. Similar child molestation statutes have been enacted by (More) |
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Virginia high court orders new sentencing trial for death row inmate
The Supreme Court of Virginia has ordered [text, PDF; summary] a new trial for death row inmate Daryl Atkins, instructing the trial court to determine whether Atkins is mentally retarded and therefore ineligible for the death penalty after the 200 (More) |
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Philippines Congress votes to end capital punishment
Both the Philippines Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday passed bills repealing the country's 12-year old death penalty law in a move that brings the country one step closer to abolishing the death penalty. The bill will replace a (More) |
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Beslan hostage-taker appeals guilty verdict
The sole surviving hostage-taker in the 2004 Beslan school siege [BBC backgrounder; MosNews report] has filed an appeal of last week's guilty verdict with the Supreme Court of North Ossetia. Claiming Nurpashi Kulayev's conviction was " (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS - DC sniper sentenced to six consecutive life terms in second trial
Montgomery County Circuit Judge James Ryan has sentenced convicted Washington, DC-area sniper John Allen Muhammad to six consecutive life terms in prison without the possibility of parole. Muhammad was convicted by a Maryland jury of six counts o (More) |
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Beslan survivors to appeal hostage-taker guilty verdict
A group of survivors of the September 2004 Beslan school siege [BBC backgrounder; MosNews report] in the Russia's North Ossetia republic announced Wednesday that they will appeal the guilty verdict against Nurpashi Kulayev , the sole surviving (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Muhammad convicted in second DC sniper trial
AP is reporting that a jury in Rockville, Md. has convicted Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad of six counts of murder. The jurors heard four weeks of testimony in the trial, in which Muhammad represented himself . Muhammad has alrea (More) |
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Russia court sentences Beslan hostage-taker to life in prison
A Russian judge Friday found Nurpashi Kulayev guilty of all charges for his role in the September 2004 Beslan school siege [BBC backgrounder; MosNews report], sentencing him to life in prison. Kulayev was charged with terrorism and murder, and ea (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.
