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Moussaoui banned from courtroom for jury selection
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled Tuesday that Zacarias Moussaoui will no longer be allowed to be present in the courtroom for jury selection in his sentencing trial after Moussaoui walked out of a pretrial hearing. Moussaoui pleaded guilty (More) |
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Russia prosecutor asks for death penalty in Beslan terror case
Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel on Thursday requested a death sentence for Nurpashi Kulayev , the sole surviving attacker from the September 2004 Beslan school siege [BBC backgrounder; MosNews report]. Kulayev has pleaded not guilty (More) |
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Moussaoui ejected from courtroom in first day of jury selection
Zacarias Moussaoui was escorted from a Virginia courtroom Monday after an argument with US District Judge Leonie Brinkema during the first few minutes of jury selection in his sentencing trial . Moussaoui declared "I am al Qaeda" upon hi (More) |
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Alito casts first Supreme Court vote in refusal to allow Missouri execution
New US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito [JURIST news archive; OYEZ profile] cast his first vote on the country's highest court on Wednesday in a decision to deny a request to vacate the stay of execution for Missouri death row prisoner Michae (More) |
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Amnesty report condemns 'disgraceful' US executions of mentally ill
As many as 10 percent of prisoners executed in the US over the past 30 years suffered from some form of mental illness, according to a report issued Tuesday by Amnesty International . In a call for legal changes in the US that would prevent executi (More) |
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Georgia rebuffs death penalty moratorium proposal
State officials and politicians in Georgia have indicated that there are no immediate plans to add death penalty reform to the legislative agenda, despite the highly critical Georgia Death Penalty Assessment Report [DOC text; additional materials] (More) |
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Georgia Death Penalty Assessment Report [ABA]
Georgia Death Penalty Assessment Report, American Bar Association, January 30, 2006. Excerpt: Over the course of the past thirty years, the American Bar Association (ABA) has become increasingly concerned that there is a crisis in our country's (More) |
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ABA recommends Georgia death penalty moratorium
The American Bar Association has recommended a moratorium on the Georgia death penalty after an ABA panel study identified numerous flaws in the state criminal justice system that it claimed greatly compromised the fair administration of capital p (More) |
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Indiana man executed after Supreme Court overturns stay
Marvin Bieghler was executed in Indiana Friday morning after the US Supreme Court overturned a stay ordered by the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Bieghler was convicted for the 1981 deaths of Tommy Miller, who Bieghler suspected tipped police (More) |
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Moussaoui lawyers granted access to pre-9/11 US documents
A federal judge has said that the government must turn over documents detailing what the US knew before the Sept. 11 attacks to defense lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui , in an order made public on Wednesday. In 2005, Moussaoui pleaded guilty to con (More) |
Justinian I issues Corpus Juris Civilis
On April 7, 529 - Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law). The Justinian Code represented a revival of Roman Law and a compilation of laws for the Byzantine Empire. It became the foundation of Canon Law in the Catholic Church and Civil Law in modern Europe.
Learn more about the Corpus Juris Civilis from the University of Wyoming College of Law.
