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Georgia Supreme Court to rule on challenge to execution drug secrecy law
The Supreme Court of Georgia heard arguments on Monday regarding the constitutionality of a law allowing the state to withhold the identities of the manufacturers of Georgia's lethal injection drugs. Last May, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed i (More) |
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Military trial delayed so Guantanamo prisoner may fire his attorney
Colonel James Pohl recessed the first military commission session of the year on Monday because Saudi prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri may want to fire his lawyer. Nashiri faces terror charges in connection with the al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole (More) |
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Uganda president to sign anti-gay law
A spokesperson for the Ugandan government, Ofwono Opondo, said in a tweet Friday that President Yoweri Museveni will sign an anti-gay law that provides for life imprisonment for homosexuals. Homosexuality has long been illegal in Uganda, and the b (More) |
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Federal judge prevents pharmacy from providing lethal injection drugs
Judge Terence Kern for the US District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma issued a temporary restraining order on The Apothecary Shoppe in Tulsa to stop the pharmacy from providing an execution drug to the Missouri Department of Correct (More) |
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Washington governor announces moratorium on death penalty
Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Tuesday announced a moratorium on executions [remarks, PDF; press release] in the state. Under Washington law the governor has the power to commute death sentences. In his remarks Inslee criticized the death penal (More) |
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Florida high court orders a review of lethal injection drug
Florida's highest court on Thursday ordered [Orlando Sentinel report] an evidentiary hearing to determine if the sedative midazolam should remain in the state's lethal injection procedure. The case of Paul Augustus Howell reached the state high cour (More) |
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Federal judge delays Louisiana execution to review injection drugs
A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana declared Monday that Wednesday's scheduled execution of 70-year-old Christopher Sepulvado by lethal injection will be delayed for 90 days. Sepulvado was charged with the murder (More) |
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Former Bangladesh minister indicted for war crimes
A former Bangladeshi minister from the Jatiya party was indicted by a Dhaka tribunal on Sunday for crimes committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War with Pakistan. Syed Mohammad Qaisar, the former state minister for agriculture during the (More) |
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UN rights experts commend India high court for death penalty ruling
UN rights experts on Thursday welcomed the January 21 decision of the Supreme Court of India commuting the death sentences of 13 individuals following a finding that their petitions for mercy were unreasonably delayed. The court also commuted the (More) |
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Ohio inmate's family files lawsuit over prolonged execution
The children of convicted murderer Dennis McGuire filed a lawsuit on Friday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio over the method used in McGuire's 26-minute long execution, which they say amounted to cruel and unusual punishme (More) |
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