Japanese justice system report [UN CAT] News
Japanese justice system report [UN CAT]

Conclusions and Recommendations of the Committee against Torture: Japan, UN Committee against Torture, May 21, 2007 [finding that Japan's justice system lacks sufficient safeguards from political interference, is lacking sufficient due process, and criticizing Japan's use of a statute of limitations for acts amounting to torture and ill treatment to dismiss petitions filed by wartime victims]. Read the full text of the report [DOC]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

US Supreme Court ruled Indians not US citizens

On November 3, 1884, the US Supreme Court ruled in Elk v. Wilkins that John Elk, an American Indian who had tried to vote in a federal election in Omaha, Nebraska, was not a US citizen entitled to the protection of the 14th and 15th Amendments of the US Constitution. Native Americans became eligible for citizenship in 1887 under the Dawes Act, but only in 1924, under the Indian Citizenship Act, were all Native Americans born in the US made citizens.

Last public execution at Tyburn Gallows in London

On November 3, 1783, the last public execution took place at Tyburn Gallows in London, when John Austin was hanged for highway robbery. From the hanging of William Fitz Osburn in 1196 until Austin's execution, Tyburn served as London's primary location for public executions.

Learn more about the trial of John Austin.