Federal judge halts Missouri executions pending lethal injection changes
US District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. halted all executions in Missouri Monday until Missouri can ensure that inmates do not suffer when given a lethal injection. Gaitan gave the Missouri Department of Corrections until July 15 to...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, says that progressive politicians in abolitionist and non-abolitionist countries alike - in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere - need to inform, educate and campaign for the...
Hill v. McDonough, Supreme Court of the United States, June 12, 2006 [holding that a death row inmate can challenge the constitutionality of a state's method of lethal injection under 42 USC 1983 even when all other appeals have been...
Supreme Court allows death row lethal injection challenge to proceed
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases Monday, including Hill v. McDonough , where the Court held that a death row inmate can challenge the constitutionality...
Supreme Court backs warrantless police home entry in emergency
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that police can enter a home without a warrant when they have not knocked or announced their presence if they have an objectively reasonable basis to believe...
Texas court lifts execution stay, rejects lethal injection appeal
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Wednesday lifted its stay of execution for Derrick S. O'Brien , citing insufficient factual or scientific evidence proving that lethal injection causes suffering and...
Texas appeals court stays execution in lethal injection challenge
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stayed Tuesday's scheduled execution of a gang member who tortured and killed two teenage girls . The reason for the stay, announced in a...
International brief ~ Five former royal cabinet members arrested in Nepal
Leading Friday's international brief, five individuals who served as the political cabinet for King Gyanendra after he dissolved the lawfully elected government in February 2005 have been arrested on charges of "making statements aimed at...
Supreme Court considers lethal injection challenge, RICO case
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether a death row inmate can challenge the constitutionality of a state's method of lethal injection under 42 USC 1983 even when all...
So Long as They Die: Lethal Injections in the United States, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2006 [calling the use of lethal injections by US authorities "incompetent, negligent, and irresponsible" and urging the federal government and the 37 out of...
