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India high court upholds death sentence for 1993 Mumbai bombings
The Indian Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence for one of the plotters of the 1993 Mumbai serial bombings that killed 257 people. Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, brother of mastermind "Tiger" Memon, was convicted in 2006 for his role in (More) |
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Maryland legislature approves bill banning death penalty
The Maryland House of Delegates on Friday voted 82-56 to ban the death penalty in Maryland. Senate Bill 276 seeks to repeal "the death penalty and all provisions relating to it," and will prescribe sentences of life imprisonment for individuals co (More) |
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UN rights chief condemns executions in Saudi Arabia
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday condemned the executions of seven people in Saudi Arabia as a violation of international safeguards on the use of the death penalty. The men were executed by firing squad after convict (More) |
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Maryland Senate votes to repeal death penalty
The Maryland Senate on Wednesday voted 27-20 to repeal the death penalty, a legislative goal long sought by Governor Martin O'Malley . Passed after several days of debate, Senate Bill 276 seeks to repeal "the death penalty and all provisions rela (More) |
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Oklahoma AG petitions Supreme Court review abortion laws
Oklahoma Attorney General E Scott Pruitt on Tuesday filed a petition [text, PDF; press release] asking the US Supreme Court to review a decision by the Oklahoma Supreme Court which struck down two state laws limiting abortion rights for physician (More) |
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Pakistan top court overturns death penalty for Musharraf assassination attempt
The Pakistan Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the death penalty for two civilians, Rana Naveed and Ameer Sohail, who were sentenced by an army appellate court for attacking the country's former military president Pervez Musharraf [BBC report; (More) |
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Georgia's Cruel and Unusual Standard for Proving Mental Retardation
JURIST Guest Columnist Terrica Ganzy, Staff Attorney for the Southern Center for Human Rights, argues that Georgia's "beyond a reasonable doubt standard" for finding mental retardation in capital offenses is a nearly insurmountable standard... (More) |
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HRW urges Yemen to stop executing juvenile offenders
Yemen's government should stop seeking and carrying out the death penalty for child offenders, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Monday. The report found that since 2007 Yemen executed at least 15 men and women who were under 18 at the (More) |
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HRW: Bangladesh and Jamaat-e-Islami must encourage end to recent violence
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called on the government of Bangladesh and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) [party website, in Bengali; GlobalSecurity backgrounder] party leadership to encourage an end to the violence wracking the country. Violence between (More) |
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Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentences Jamaat-e-Islami leader to death
The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Thursday sentenced to death Jamaat-e-Islami party (JI) [party website, in Bengali; GlobalSecurity backgrounder] leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedee . Following the death sentence, violence between (More) |
Supreme Court upheld discriminatory districting
On June 10, 1946, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld uneven congressional districting plans in Colegrove v. Green. The case challenged an Illinois districting plan that concentrated voters into large districts in the center of the state and did not balance for population. The Court reasoned that districting was a political question for the states to decide without judicial interference. This opinion was overturned less than 20 years later in Baker v. Carr, which set judicial standards for invoking political question doctrine.
Learn more about political question doctrine from the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law.
