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Supreme Court declines to hear Moussaoui case, setting stage for trial
The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear an appeal from alleged "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui , the only person formally charged by the US government with criminal complicity in the September 11 terror attacks. Moussaoui had chall (More) |
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Scalia criticizes juvenile death penalty decision as politics
Addressing an audience at DC's Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Monday, Justice Antonin Scalia of the US Supreme Court called the recent 5-4 ruling striking down the juvenile death penalty [PDF opinion; JURIST report] the latest (More) |
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China to reform, not eliminate death penalty
After questioning the rationale [China Daily report] for continued use of capital punishment earlier this year, China has decided to reform but not eliminate the death penalty. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao announced the reforms Monday , which s (More) |
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Chinese chief justice alludes to death penalty reform
In a Supreme Court report to the National People's Congress, China's Chief Justice Xiao Yang said the Supreme People's Court would "further perfect second-instance judgments for criminal cases and death penalty review procedures.&q (More) |
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Bush and the ICJ: Executive Obligation and International Law
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that not only does the President have the authority to direct states to comply with a decision of the International Court of Justice, but in fact he has the obligation t (More) |
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Israeli minister urges Palestinians to call off resumption of executions
An Israeli cabinet minister has called for the Palestinian Authority to reverse a decision publicized Thursday to reintroduce capital punishment and to immediately stay the scheduled execution of accused collaborators with Israel . The call by Nata (More) |
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Joining the World Against Juvenile Executions
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego notes that with the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Roper v. Simmons, the United States has finally joined the community of nations that says the state-sanct (More) |
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Bainbridge [UCLA]: Roper v. Simmons
Stephen Bainbridge :"I'm increasingly opposed to the death penalty on both pragmatic and moral grounds, but I nevertheless found much to agree with in Justice Antonin Scalia's scathing dissent from the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision st (More) |
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Ruling on death penalty for juveniles [US SC]
Roper v. Simmons, Supreme Court of the United States, March 1, 2005 . Excerpt [from the majority opinion by Justice Kennedy}:The differences between juvenile and adult offenders are too marked and well understood to risk allowing a youthful person to (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court strikes down death penalty for juveniles
CBS News is reporting that the US Supreme Court has struck down the possibility of the death penalty for juvenile killers. SCOTUSBlog has more on the Court's 5-4 opinion in Roper v. Simmons, 03-633.10:30 AM ET - In an opinion authored by Justic (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
