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Sixth Circuit overturns Scottish man's death penalty conviction

January 26, 2005 10:20:00 AM

Citing "constitutional errors", the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday overturned the controversial conviction and death sentence of British national Kenny Richey of Edinburgh. Richey will be released from death row in 90...

January 25, 2005 12:41:00 PM

Jerzy Urban, editor-in-chief of the Polish weekly newspaper Nie , was convicted by a court in Warsaw Tuesday for criticizing Pope John Paul II . Jerzy was found guilty of insulting a head of state,...

January 24, 2005 01:03:00 PM

Wednesday's scheduled execution of convicted mass murderer Michael Ross was postponed indefinitely Monday by order of District Judge Robert N. Chatigny, so that Chatigny can hear arguments on Ross' mental capacity. Had the execution by lethal injection...

January 23, 2005 11:37:00 AM

Two American soldiers were convicted Saturday of charges related to the shooting death of an Iraqi woman who was working with them as a translator. A military judge at Camp Liberty in Baghdad found Spc. Charley Hooser of the...

January 21, 2005 04:48:00 PM

Iraq's interim defense minister said Friday that the government would arrest prominent Iraqi National Congress party leader Ahmad Chalabi after the end of the Muslim festival of Eid on Sunday for maligning him and the...

January 21, 2005 09:00:00 AM

An Irish appeals court Friday quashed the only criminal conviction stemming from the 1998 Omagh bombing which killed twenty-nine people and injured hundreds more in the largest terror attack in the history of the...

January 20, 2005 08:10:00 AM

Pre-trial motions in a lawsuit brought by Washington Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi contesting the 129-vote victory of Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire in a hand recount begin Thursday. The case, which gets under way in...

January 19, 2005 08:19:00 AM

California prison officials executed three-time murderer Donald Beardslee Wednesday morning, the first execution in California in three years. Following a Board of Prison Terms recommendation , California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger denied clemency to Beardslee, saying: The state...

January 18, 2005 04:21:00 PM

The US Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in Rompilla v. Beard , 04-5462 , a PA case that involves jury instructions for cases involving the death penalty. Rompilla, who was convicted of robbing,...

January 18, 2005 09:09:00 AM

A UK soldier facing court-martial in Germany on charges of mistreating Iraqi civilians pleaded guilty Tuesday to one assault charge, but denied another charge. Two other soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers , Corp. Daniel Kenyon and...

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