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MA Gov. Mitt Romney filed a bill Thursday to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts for deadly acts of terrorism, killing sprees, murders involving torture, and the killing of law enforcement authorities. Romney's bill uses ten recommendations...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Thursday, April 14.The US Senate convenes at 9:30 AM ET today, when it will consider H.R. 1268 , the Iraq/Afghanistan Supplemental...

A presidential commission on Thursday said US intelligence agencies know "disturbingly little" about threats posed by the nation's most dangerous adversaries, and the commission recommended more than 70 changes that President Bush can make to improve intelligence. The WMD...

Canadian citizens may be subjected to expanded "control measures" such as house arrests currently being developed for use against immigrant terror suspects, Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler has said. The proposed detention rules are meant to expand...

The Dutch Parliament's lower house passed a new terror bill Friday that will lower the level of evidence needed to hold a terror suspect, allow the government to hold suspects for up to two...

HR 841, Continuity in Representation Act of 2005, passed by US House of Representatives, March 4, 2005 [bill creating a blueprint for filing mass legislative vacancies should a situation like a terror strike against the Capitol arise which leaves more...

More than three years after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, the US House of Representatives Thursday passed a bill creating a blueprint for filling legislative vacancies should a situation like a terror strike against...

In Monday's international brief, the United Kingdom's Special Immigration Appeal Commission has granted bail to three terror suspects individuals being held without charge or trial in London's Belmarsh Prison . The only individual to...

US House Committee on the Judiciary chairman James Sensenbrenner, Jr. introduced legislation Wednesday that contains provisions restricting terrorist travel that were dropped from the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 , which...

US Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales told senators Tuesday that any torture by US forces would be illegal and that he supported reinstating a federal assault weapons ban that...