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Missouri carried out the execution on Tuesday of a man whose capital conviction had been marred by controversies over insufficient evidence, compromised witness testimony, and racial discrimination. In a statement, the Innocence Project, an advocacy group devoted to exonerating wrongfully convicted death row inmates, wrote of Williams’ passing: Mr. Williams’ story echoes that of too [...]

Missouri Governor Mike Parson announced the state will move forward with plans to execute Marcellus Williams at 6 pm local time on Tuesday despite controversy over evidence and racial discrimination in the trial that led to his 2001 capital conviction. Who is Marcellus Williams? The jury that convicted Williams of capital murder knew little about [...]

Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts sentenced activist Chu Kai-pong to 14 months in prison on Thursday for sedition, according to local media. Chu was convicted on Monday upon pleading guilty to one count of sedition under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance. He is the first to be convicted under the new ordinance. Magistrate Victor [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday vacated a preliminary injunction that had blocked key provisions of Arizona’s contentious Senate Bill 1260, resulting in the reinstatement of Arizona’s 2022 voter registration and mail-in voting laws which were intended to increase election security. The ruling reinstates two critical elements of the legislation: [...]

A local Kentucky sheriff has been taken into custody on murder charges following the fatal shooting of District Judge Kevin Mullins on Thursday. Judge Mullins, who had served for fifteen years, was shot several times in his chambers.  A preliminary investigation by Kentucky police identified Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines as the primary suspect. [...]

Three years since the Taliban took control, Afghanistan has descended into one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises. Millions of Afghans, especially women and girls, face systematic repression. The Taliban have enacted increasingly restrictive measures aimed at erasing women and girls from public life, leading to widespread subjugation and violations of their human rights and [...]

Google won a court challenge on Wednesday against the €1.49 billion EU antitrust fine that was imposed in 2019 for anti-trust violations related to its digital advertising business.  Since 2003, Google has managed an ad intermediation platform called AdSense, which allows third-party websites to display Google ads in response to user queries. In 2019, the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Wednesday that the simultaneous detonation of thousands of communication devices across Lebanon and Syria violated customary international law. Thousands of pagers exploded on Tuesday, killing 12 and injuring more than 2,000 people. Walkie-talkie explosions on Wednesday killed an additional 25 and injured at least 600. The devices were evidently [...]

A United Nations report stated Tuesday that the Venezuelan authorities’ repression of the protests following the July 28 elections reached an unprecedented level of violence, including the commission of human rights violations. The report was conducted by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Republic of Venezuela and examined the human rights situation in the [...]

When the founding fathers signed the US Constitution on September 17, 1787, they laid the foundations for a national government that was strong, but not omnipotent. The federal government was divided into three branches — executive, legislative, and judicial — and a series of checks and balances were created to ensure no single branch of [...]