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Exaggerated Claims of “Judicial Nullification” in Gun Cases

May 20, 2016 05:58:50 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric Ruben of the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law responds to a recent JURIST article about the Second Amendment and firearm industry immunity....Eight years after the Supreme Court struck down...

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Debs sentenced for leadership of Pullman strike

On December 15, 1894, US labor leader and socialist Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to six months imprisonment for his leadership of the Pullman railroad strike. Visit the website of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation.

Adolf Eichmann sentenced to death in Israel

On December 15, 1961, former-Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death in Jerusalem, Israel. Known as the "architect of the Holocaust," Eichmann escaped to Argentina after World War II until he was captured there by Israeli agents in 1960. Learn more about the trial of Adolf Eichmann from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.