Death sentences report 2007 [Amnesty International] News
Death sentences report 2007 [Amnesty International]

Death Sentences and Executions in 2007, Amnesty International, April 15, 2008 [reporting that at least 1200 people were executed worldwide in 2007, 88 percent of which took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United States]. Read the full text of the report [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Eighteenth Amendment came into effect

On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution came into effect as scheduled one year after ratification, marking the beginning of Prohibition. Learn more about Temperance and Prohibition from Professor K. Austin Kerr of the Ohio State University Department of History.

English Parliament bans Roman Catholicism

On January 16, 1581, the English Parliament banned Roman Catholicism throughout the country during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. From that time on, Catholicism declined in England until the Catholic Emancipation of the late 18th century.

Read the history of the Roman Catholic Church in England.