California executed 76-year old Clarence Ray Allen Tuesday morning, despite protests that executing the ailing inmate was cruel and unusual punishment. Allen, who was blind, nearly deaf and confined to a wheelchair, was California's oldest death...
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The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that states have no immunity from private lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) if the state has violated the Fourteenth Amendment. In United States v. Georgia [Duke...
Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, as included in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006 and agreed to by the US House and Senate and signed by President Bush, December 30, 2005 [incorporating the McCain Amendment and the Graham-Levin Amendment...
The Supreme Court of Mexico ruled Tuesday that prisoners serving life sentences can be extradited abroad, overturning a 2001 decision that prevented such prisoners from answering to charges in the US insofar as punishment there...
High court rules against automatic jury determination of mental retardation
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that death row inmates do not have an automatic right to a jury trial to determine whether or not an inmate is mentally retarded and therefore ineligible...
States brief ~ Nebraska high court rules state cannot regulate groundwater
Leading Friday's states brief, the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision today that found the state's Department of Natural Resources cannot regulate groundwater unless the legislature confers such authority. Judge John Wright, writing...
Mexican Congress votes to remove death penalty from constitution
Mexico's House voted for an constiutional amendment Thursday that expunges the death penalty language from the country's present constitution by a margin of 412-0. The amendment calls for the current language to...
US Army Pvt. Brandon Hughey , who fled to Canada after refusing a deployment order to Iraq and deserting his unit at Fort Hood, formally asked the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board for asylum Thursday. Hughey...
Second Periodic Report of the United States of America to the UN Committee Against Torture, US State Department, May 6, 2005. Excerpt:...global terrorism has fundamentally altered our world. In fighting terrorism, the U.S. remains committed to respecting the rule of...
Kentucky inmates challenge lethal injection as new study suggests awareness
Two convicted killers currently on Kentucky's death row begin a court challenge Monday to the state's use of lethal injection as its form of execution. Ralph Baze and Thomas Bowling claim that the use of lethal injection is "cruel...
