Commentaries by John D. Bessler

The Methods to the Madness: The Electric Chair, Lethal Injection and Now Nitrogen Gas

April 30, 2015 08:17:58 am

JURIST Guest Columnist John D. Bessler, of the University of Baltimore School of Law, discusses new changes in the evolution of capital punishment... Increasingly, US death penalty states are no longer content to have just one method of execution on...

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African Union established

On July 9, 2002, the African Union (AU) was established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Read the Constitutive Act of the African Union.

Eight states ratify Articles of Confederation

On July 9, 1778, eight states - New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and South Carolina - signed and ratified the Articles of Confederation, the first American constitution. The Articles took formal effect after ratification by Maryland on March 1, 1781.