2006 US crime report [FBI] News
2006 US crime report [FBI]

Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report for 2006, Federal Bureau of Investigation, June 4, 2007 [finding that violent crime in the US increased 1.3 percent in 2006, while property crime decreased 2.9 percent]. Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Massachusetts instituted death penalty for heresy

On November 4, 1646, the Massachusetts General Court approved a law requiring all members of the colony to recognize the Bible as the Word of God, under penalty of death.  

Israel PM Yitzhak Rabin assassinated

On November 4, 1995, Yigal Amir shot and killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in response to the Oslo Accords peace agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Amir was tried and given a life sentence for the murder. Learn more about the trial of Yigal Amir from the New York Times.