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Mexican Congress votes to remove death penalty from constitution
Mexico's House voted for an constiutional amendment Thursday that expunges the death penalty language from the country's present constitution by a margin of 412-0. The amendment calls for the current language to be replaced with verbiage t (More) |
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Palestinians to void security court verdicts
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked his government's Justice Minister Wednesday to set aside verdicts by the much-criticized state security courts . Human rights groups have said the courts, set up under Yasser Arafat in 1995, were too qu (More) |
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Pennsylvania death penalty ruling [US SC]
Rompilla v. Beard, Supreme Court of the United States, June 20, 2005 . Excerpt from the Opinion by Justice Souter:We hold that even when a capital defendant's family members and the defendant himself have suggested that no mitigating evidence is (More) |
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Supreme Court orders new trial in death penalty case
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 5-4 decision that public defenders had wrongfully failed to review records showing evidence of mental retardation and a troubled childhood in the case of Pennsylvania death row inmate Ronald Rompilla. In the se (More) |
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Rare death penalty case to begin in Vermont
A federal court in Burlington, Vermont is expected to hear opening statements Monday in the first death-penalty case in the state since 1957. Vermont does not have a death penalty but Donald Fell was charged under a federal capital murder law after (More) |
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Supreme Court rules in race bias cases
In a 6-3 decision Monday the US Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a black inmate on death row who claimed that Texas prosecutors purposely eliminated black jurors to fill the jury with whites. Justice Souter, writing for the majority, rejec (More) |
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Saddam lawyer wants trial in Europe
A member of Saddam Hussein's defense team said Sunday that any trial of the former Iraqi dictator should take place not in Iraq, but in Europe. Giovanni di Stefano told a Swedish television interviewer that he would prefer to see Saddam tried i (More) |
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Uganda high court upholds death penalty but limits scope
Uganda's Court of Appeals Friday dismissed an appeal by death row inmates to ban capital punishment in the country but did find that laws mandating the death penalty for certain crimes are unconstitutional and require Parliamentary amendment. I (More) |
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Iraq PM says Saddam trial will begin in "a matter of months"
Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said Thursday that the trial of Saddam Hussein will commence in a "matter of months" and Hussein may face the death penalty if convicted in a fair trial. The death sentence was suspended in Iraq in (More) |
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Iraq judge says Saddam's morale fading as trial nears
Saddam Hussein's morale has dropped due to the the magnitude of the charges against him and the fact that his trial will be before an impartial court, according to Judge Raid Juhi of the Iraqi Special Tribunal , speaking in an interview publis (More) |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying
On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death after a treason trial in which they were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Learn more about the Rosenberg trial.
