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Singapore lawyers' guild to review death penalty
Singapore's national association of lawyers, the Law Society , is to conduct a review of the nation's death penalty laws and make recommendations to the national government in nine months. Singapore has one of the world's highest per cap (More) |
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Alito Day 4: Polarized Politics and Judicial Confirmations
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Graber of the University of Maryland School of Law says that the Alito hearings have demonstrated yet again that political polarization has impoverished the judicial confirmation process... The fourth day of the Alito hea (More) |
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DNA test confirms guilt of Virginia man executed in 1992
DNA test results [text, PDF; press release] released Thursday by the State of Virginia have apparently confirmed the guilt of Roger Keith Coleman , who was convicted of the 1981 rape and murder of his sister-in-law and was executed in 1992 despite a (More) |
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Canadian Gitmo detainee seeks change of lawyers as military hearings get underway
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr on Wednesday asked the judge presiding over Khadr's military trial to delay proceedings so that Khadr could secure counsel with more trial experience. Khadr, 19, faces charge (More) |
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Death penalty sentencing factors ruling [US SC]
Brown v. Sanders, Supreme Court of the United States, January 11, 2006 . Read the Court's opinion per Justice Scalia, along with a dissent from Justice Stevens, joined by Justice Souter, and a second dissent from Justice Breyer, joined by Justice (More) |
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Supreme Court rules in close death penalty case
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that a death sentence can stand in some circumstances even when the sentencing jury relied in part on a factor later found invalid. In Brown v. Sanders , the Court considered the appeal of convicted murdere (More) |
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Death penalty moratorium and study bill [NJ Legislature]
An Act creating a study commission on the death penalty 1and imposing a moratorium on executions, passed by the New Jersey Legislature January 9, 2006 . Read the draft text of the bill. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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New Jersey legislature suspends executions, sets up death penalty study
The New Jersey Legislature passed a bill Monday to suspend executions and create a New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission [statement, PDF] to examine all aspects of the death penalty , including its fairness and costs. The 13-member commission (More) |
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Saddam trial could end by June, US official says
A top official at the US Department of Justice's Regime Crimes Liaison Office in Baghdad has suggested that the current trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein could end as early as June, with further trial proceedings to commence thereaf (More) |
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Judging Alito: The US Supreme Court Selection System on Trial
JURIST Guest Columnist Bryan Horrigan of Macquarie University Faculty of Law in Sydney, Australia, says that the upcoming confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito are a trial not just of the nominee, but of the uniquely-American system of public (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.
