Missouri's revised plan for conducting executions by lethal injection fails to ensure that executions do not cause unconstitutional pain and suffering, according to US District Judge Fernando Gaitan , who halted all executions in the...

The Washington Supreme Court ruled Wednesday morning that a statute prohibiting same-sex marriage does not violate the state Constitution. The Supreme Court reversed a 2004 Superior Court ruling that the state's 1998 Defense...

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled 7-0 Wednesday that a Cincinnati suburb may not use eminent domain to take private property on the sole basis of economic benefit to the community. Several residents of Norwood...

Israel has denied using banned cluster munitions in Lebanon. On Tuesday, Human Rights Watch accused Israel of using the cluster grenades in an attack on a Hezbollah village in...

UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer issued a review of the implementation of the Human Rights Act Tuesday indicating that the government will not support legislation to amend or appeal the Act but wants instead to...

Saddam Hussein attended trial proceedings Wednesday for the first time since the prosecution called for the death penalty during closing arguments in June. In a statement to Presiding Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , Hussein...

The UK Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that Military Families Against the War (MFAW) , a group of families with members who have died in Iraq, is entitled to apply for judicial review of the government's decision not...

The Bush administration has begun circulating a draft bill to authorize military trials for terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay , according to a report in Wednesday's New York Times. The draft bill, written by...

United Nations relief coordinator Jan Egeland said Tuesday that Israel had used "disproportionate" force in its military offensive against the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip , but he added that...

Review of CBP Actions Taken to Intercept Suspected Terrorists at US Ports of Entry, Department of Homeland Security, July 25, 2006 [finding that travelers with names similar to those on the watch list can be questioned for hours and that...