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Jurors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui head into a fourth day of deliberations Thursday after no verdict was reached Wednesday. The jurors, who have been deliberating now for 16 hours over the...

The jury in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui began deliberations Monday on whether to spare his life or to execute him for conspiring in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 . At the close...

A social worker testified Monday that convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui led a troubled childhood and adolescence that ultimately led him to radical Islamic beliefs, although Moussaoui spurned the testimony as he was...

Vladimir Kovacevic , a Serbian commander charged with war crimes for his part in the 1991 attack on the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, has been declared unfit to stand trial because of...

Leading Monday's international brief, the Israeli Cabinet has agreed to impose a hefty series of sanctions against the Palestinian Authority (PA) unless the ruling party of Hamas commits to non-violence and drops its call...

As many as 10 percent of prisoners executed in the US over the past 30 years suffered from some form of mental illness, according to a report issued Tuesday by Amnesty International . In a call for...

Defense attorneys for admitted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui on Tuesday notified the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia of their plans to call expert witnesses to support their argument that Moussaoui should be spared...

According to records released by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation , 44 convicts out of a total California prison population of 164,000 committed suicide during 2005, an increase from 26 in 2004 and 36 in 2003,...

JURIST Guest Columnist Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, says that California Arnold Schwarzenegger's ruling denying clemency in ths case of Crips gang co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams disregarded the constitutional foundations of...

In a 6-0 vote, the California Supreme Court late Sunday refused to halt the execution of co-founder Crips gang co-founder and convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams . Williams was convicted of killing four people during two...