Death row lethal injection ruling [US SC] News
Death row lethal injection ruling [US SC]

Hill v. McDonough, Supreme Court of the United States, June 12, 2006 [holding that a death row inmate can challenge the constitutionality of a state's method of lethal injection under 42 USC 1983 even when all other appeals have been exhausted]. Read the full text of the unanimous opinion by Justice Kennedy. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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US Supreme Court said bussing could be used to achieve racial integration

On April 20, 1971, the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education that busing of school students could be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.

League of Nations dissolved

On April 20, 1946, the League of Nations was officially dissolved with the close of its final session. Thirty-four countries had attended the final meeting at which they elected to dismantle the organization and bequeath its assets to the United Nations. Read a history of League of Nations from the UN.