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UN rights experts urge Egypt to halt executions
A group of five UN Human Right's experts on Friday asked Egypt to halt all pending executions following repeated allegations of unfair trials. The experts are concerned with a "continuing pattern of death sentences handed out on the basis of eviden (More) |
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Supreme Court hears arguments in overtime pay, Sixth Amendment cases
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday: one concerning overtime-pay, and another concerning constitutional protections to criminal defendants. The first case, Encino Motorcars v. Navarro , asks the court two questions. (More) |
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UN human rights experts implore Iran to stop execution of juvenile offender
United Nations human rights experts asked Iran on Tuesday to stay the execution of an offender who was 15 years old when he was sentenced to death. Abolfazl Chezani Sharahi was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 2014 after fatally stabbi (More) |
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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 13 January 2018
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Supreme Court added 12 cases to its docket on Friday, including two Texas redistricting cases. The court had previously blocked two lower court rulings that mandated the redrawing of Texa (More) |
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Supreme Court sends death penalty case back to appeals court over racist remarks by juror
The US Supreme Court on Monday blocked the execution of Georgia inmate Keith Tharpe, ordering the federal appeals court in Atlanta to examine claims that a juror voted for the death sentence because Tharpe was black. By a 6-3 vote, the court ques (More) |
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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 9 December 2017
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: California's Public Counsel partnered with Morrison & Foerster on Tuesday to file a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Los Angeles claiming the state has failed to uphold its suggested standards for (More) |
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Supreme Court denies review in death penalty case involving jury discrimination
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied review in the Alabama death penalty case of Floyd v. Alabama in which attorneys argue that African-American jurors were improperly excluded from the jury. The petitioner, Christopher Floyd, was tried by an all (More) |
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Memory, Mental Competency, and Capital Punishment
JURIST Guest Columnist Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier of City University of New York School of Law discusses diminished capacity standards in recent capital punishment cases... The United States Supreme Court in Dunn v. Madison recently considered whether o (More) |
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Supreme Court refuses to enforce original plea bargain based on contract principles
The US Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court's decision to enforce an original plea bargain in accordance with contract law principles, finding such application was not supported by federal law. The case arose from a California criminal (More) |
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Supreme Court allows execution of man who cannot remember crime
The US Supreme Court unanimously concluded on Monday that Alabama may execute a death row inmate, Vernon Madison, who claims to be mentally incompetent and unfit to be executed under the Eighth Amendment due to several strokes and vascular dementi (More) |
Arkansas governor Faubus attempted to stop integration of Little Rock high school
On September 4, 1957, Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus called out state National Guard troops to prevent federal court-ordered integration of black students into Central High School in Little Rock. President Eisenhower subsequently sent the US 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock to enforce the ruling. Pay a virtual visit to the Little Rock High School National Historic Site.
