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Jury selection begins for Boston Marathon bombing suspect
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused in the Boston Marathon bombings , arrived at the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Monday for jury selection in his federal death penalty trial. Tsarnaev will sit with his attorneys as approximately 1 (More) |
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Pakistan judge issues arrest warrant for radical cleric
A Pakistani court on Friday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Maulana Abdul Aziz , the head cleric of the Red Mosque in Islamabad. The court order comes after Aziz was accused of threatening protestors who were unhappy with his support of th (More) |
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Saudi Arabia women activists arrested for driving transferred to terrorism tribunal
A court in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia's eastern province, has ordered that the criminal cases against Loujain Hathloul and Maysaa Alamoudi , two women's rights activists, be transferred to a special tribunal for terrorism in Riyadh. The women were arrest (More) |
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Death row inmates challenge Ohio execution secrecy law
Four death row inmates filed a complaint on Wednesday challenging Substitute House Bill 663 , a measure providing for the confidentiality of entities involved in the manufacture of drugs for use in capital punishment by lethal injection, and of the (More) |
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UN adopts resolutions to reinforce emergency humanitarian response
The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday adopted three draft resolutions to reinforce the UN's emergency humanitarian response. The drafts were adopted without a vote, and they concerned international cooperation on humanitarian assistance i (More) |
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Federal judge approves Oklahoma lethal injection protocol
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma ruled Monday that Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol protocol is constitutional. The ruling has effectively allowed the state to continue with the scheduled executions of fo (More) |
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UN warns of human rights violations in Libya
The UN Human Rights Office and the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Monday released a joint report describing civilian populations in Libya being subjected to shelling, abduction, torture, execution and deliberate destruction of property. I (More) |
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UN rights chief criticizes resumption of executions in Pakistan and Jordan
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Monday expressed deep regret at the lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty in Pakistan and Jordan in recent days, stressing that no judiciary can be infallible. Pakistan and Jo (More) |
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Jordan reinstates capital punishment after eight years
The Interior Ministry of Jordan announced 11 men were executed by hanging on Sunday, which marks the first time Jordanian authorities delivered capital punishment in eight years. The authorities convicted the men of murder between 2005-2006. All of (More) |
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Pakistan PM lifts death penalty moratorium following deadly attack
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday approved the lifting of Pakistan's moratorium on the death penalty. Sharif's decision was rendered in response to a deadly attack by the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) on a school in Peshwar that killed (More) |
Republic of Ireland Act enters force
On April 18, 1949, the Republic of Ireland Act went into force, creating a republic in the state of Ireland. The Act repealed the Executive Authority Act, which had given governing authority in Ireland to the King of England.
