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Nebraska lawmakers override veto to abolish death penalty
Nebraska on Wednesday became the first Republican-controlled state to repeal the death penalty since 1973. Governor Pete Ricketts vetoed the bill on Tuesday, but after a vote Wednesday afternoon, the state officially repealed capital punishment . (More) |
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Supreme Court to rule in voter equality case
The US Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to rule in a major voter equality case, noting jurisdiction in Evenwel v. Abbott [docket; jurisdictional statement, PDF]. The question presented is: "whether the 'one-person, one-vote' principle of the Fourteenth (More) |
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Nebraska lawmakers approve bill abolishing death penalty
Nebraska lawmakers voted 32-15 Wednesday to approve a bill abolishing the death penalty. Earlier in April Nebraska lawmakers voted 30-13 in favor of the legislation to repeal the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment in first-degree m (More) |
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UN rights expert calls for adoption of revised standard for treatment of prisoners
The top UN human rights expert on torture, Juan Mendez , called Monday for the adoption of the revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners in an open letter to the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice . The revis (More) |
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death for Boston bombing role
Chechen immigrant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] was sentenced to death by lethal injection on Friday by a federal jury for his role in the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings after 14 hours of deliberations. He will be formal (More) |
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UN experts condemn increase in Iran executions
UN human rights experts on Friday condemned the growing number of executions in Iran in recent years. According to the Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights in Iran and on extrajudicial executions, Iran has executed about 350 people (More) |
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Everyone Benefits From Religious Liberty Protections
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Lorence of Alliance Defending Freedom discusses the benefits of religious freedom to liberty protections ... Listening carefully to objections to state religious freedom laws, two assum (More) |
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North Carolina lawmakers approve bill to resume executions
North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday approved a measure aimed at resuming executions after nine years. The law removes the requirement to have a doctor present at all lethal injections and instead would allow nurses, physician's assistants or param (More) |
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The Methods to the Madness: The Electric Chair, Lethal Injection and Now Nitrogen Gas
JURIST Guest Columnist John D. Bessler, of the University of Baltimore School of Law, discusses new changes in the evolution of capital punishment... Increasingly, US death penalty states are no longer content to have just one method of execution on (More) |
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Indonesia executes 8 convicted drug smugglers
Eight convicted drug smugglers were executed in Indonesia early Wednesday despite international criticism and pleas for clemency. Among those executed by firing squad [Jakarta Post report] were Australian nationals Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, p (More) |
Sirhan convicted of assassinating RFK
On April 17, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life in prison after the Supreme Court of California overturned the death penalty in the state.
