UN rights council to send investigators to Venezuela News
UN rights council to send investigators to Venezuela

The UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to launch an investigation into Venezuela regarding human rights violations within the country.

According to the resolution, approximately 6,000 people have been killed since January 2018 due to government security operations. There have also been reports of extreme use of force against peaceful protesters.

The vote included 19 members in favor of the investigation and seven opposed. The Human Rights Council will create a fact-finding authority dedicated to investigating judicial decisions, citizen disappearances, unethical arrests and other problematic actions that have occurred in Venezuela since 2014.

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.