Peruvian President Alan Garcia has called on lawmakers to authorize the death penalty for terrorism offenses . In a speech to the Peruvian Congress Monday, Garcia urged lawmakers to "give the necessary...
Serge Brammertz , the deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court who is heading the UN's independent investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri told the UN Security Council...
Prosecutors at the Iraqi High Tribunal showed video footage of the aftermath of the so-called "Anfal" campaigns as Saddam Hussein's genocide trial continued in Baghdad Tuesday. The footage included...
Jackie Arklov, a Swedish citizen who volunteered with a Croatian militia during the Bosnian war, was convicted of war crimes Monday in what the Stockholm District Court called the first occasion in modern times that a...
Robert M. McDowell, one of five commissioners that make up the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) , has said that he will not vote on the proposed $82.2 billion AT&T-BellSouth merger despite being cleared [JURIST...
A lawyer for a US Marine captain implicated in the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November said Monday that his client has been informed that he will face criminal charges. Capt. Lucas McConnell has...
Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have said that a program providing temporary housing to victims of Hurricane Katrina could resume this week. US District Judge Richard Leon last month ordered [PDF...
Turkish writer Ipek Calislar was found not guilty Tuesday of "insulting the Turkish identity" in violation of Article 301 of the country's penal code. Calislar went on trial in October for writing that the founder...
Romanian President Traian Basescu has told the country's parliament that the "criminal and illegitimate" former Communist regime committed massive human rights violations and crimes against humanity , killing and persecuting as many as...
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday ordered his administration to "correct court-identified deficiencies in California's lethal injection protocol to ensure the death penalty procedure is constitutional." In a memorandum of intended decision issued...