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Second trial begins for DC sniper Muhammad
Jury selection will begin Monday in the second trial of John Allen Muhammad , who was convicted of one sniper shooting in Virginia but now faces six murder charges for killings in Maryland that occurred during the three-week shooting spree in the (More) |
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Moussaoui jury to resume deliberations after dictionary debacle
The jurors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui are set to resume deliberations Monday after spending a weekend at home. The Alexandria, Virginia, jury stopped work Friday in the wake of an admonishment from Judge Leonie Brinkema against d (More) |
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Jury reconvenes in Moussaoui sentencing trial after illness
Jury deliberations in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui [JURIST news archive, case docket] were put on hold Thursday after a juror called in sick, but are expected to resume Friday at 8:30 AM ET. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema considere (More) |
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Moussaoui jury enters fourth day of deliberations
Jurors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui [JURIST news archive; case docket] head into a fourth day of deliberations Thursday after no verdict was reached Wednesday. The jurors, who have been deliberating now for 16 hours over the past th (More) |
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Supreme Court considers duress defense, federal question, death penalty cases
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday considered whether a criminal defendant must prove a duress defense by a preponderance of the evidence or, instead, if the government must prove absence of duress beyond a reaso (More) |
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Supreme Court rules in sovereign immunity, habeas time limit cases
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday handed down opinions in two cases, including Northern Insurance v. Chatham County , 04-1618, where the Court held that an entity that is not entitled to immunity under the Eleve (More) |
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Two dozen more Guantanamo detainees to be charged
The chief military prosecutor for Guantanamo Bay , USAF Col. Morris Davis , Monday announced plans to charge an additional two dozen Guantanamo detainees and to seek the death penalty against several. Three of the 10 detainees originally charged are (More) |
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Lethal Injections in the United States [HRW]
So Long as They Die: Lethal Injections in the United States, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Moussaoui sentence now up to jury
The jury in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui began deliberations Monday on whether to spare his life or to execute him for conspiring in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 . At the close of arguments at his sentencing trial in a courtroom in Alexandria, (More) |
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Rights group slams 'negligent' use of lethal injections in US
Human Rights Watch Monday called the use of lethal injections by US authorities "incompetent, negligent, and irresponsible" in a report urging the federal government and the 37 out of 38 death penalty states that use that method of execu (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.
