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Malvo pleads guilty in Maryland sniper cases

October 10, 2006 03:34:00 PM

Lee Boyd Malvo pleaded guilty Tuesday to six Maryland murders that occurred during a three-week shooting spree in the Washington, DC area in 2002. A sentencing hearing for the pleas will occur on...

June 1, 2006 10:51:00 AM

Montgomery County Circuit Judge James Ryan has sentenced convicted Washington, DC-area sniper John Allen Muhammad to six consecutive life terms in prison without the possibility of parole. Muhammad was convicted by a Maryland jury of...

May 30, 2006 02:40:00 PM

AP is reporting that a jury in Rockville, Md. has convicted Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad of six counts of murder. The jurors heard four weeks of testimony in the trial, in which Muhammad...

May 23, 2006 01:52:00 PM

Lee Boyd Malvo testified Tuesday in a Maryland court against John Allen Muhammad in Muhammad's second trial involving the murder of six people in Maryland during a three-week shooting spree in...

May 5, 2006 03:40:00 PM

John Allen Muhammad , representing himself, began questioning witnesses Friday in his second trial involving the three-week shooting spree in the Washington, DC area in 2002. Jury selection in the trial began on Monday...

May 1, 2006 07:02:00 AM

Jury selection will begin Monday in the second trial of John Allen Muhammad , who was convicted of one sniper shooting in Virginia but now faces six murder charges for killings in Maryland that occurred during...

April 25, 2006 07:56:00 AM

DC sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad agreed Monday to allow three attorneys to stand by and provide advice upon request when he begins representing himself at his trial , set to begin May 1. Maryland Judge...

March 29, 2006 03:29:00 PM

A Maryland judge ruled Wednesday that DC sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad can represent himself during his upcoming trial on six counts of first degree murder related to the three-week series of shootings in the Washington, DC...

March 3, 2006 10:33:00 AM

Prosecutor Douglas Gansler of the Montgomery County State's Attorneys Office in Maryland said Thursday that he will not seek the death penalty for DC sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad , who is charged with...

November 3, 2005 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Allen Rostron of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law says that new federal legislation immunizing gun makers from tort liability might protect them, but not the innocent people who are so often victims of gun...

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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty extended indefinitely

On May 11, 1995, over 170 signatory nations agreed to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) indefinitely. The NPT is an agreement signed by 189 countries to control the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear technology based on the principles of disarmament, non-proliferation, and the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. The treaty was opened for signature in 1968 with a provision for review conferences every five years. During the 1995 review conference in New York City, member countries decided to keep the treaty open indefinitely. Learn more about the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty from the United Nations.

Massachusetts repealed law banning Christmas

On May 11, 1682, the Massachusetts General Court repealed two laws that had banned the celebration of Christmas and had authorized capital punishment for expelled Quakers returning to the colony. Learn more about the state's ban on Christmas.