The US government should not kill Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin. State-sponsored murder won’t stem the rising tide of political violence looming over all of us. And Utah is one of only five states in the US that allows execution by firing squad. Though rare, the prospect of the state shooting Mr. Robinson to death for [...]
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The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report on Thursday detailing the “further and rapid deterioration” of human rights in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since October 7. The report stressed that escalating violence puts civilian populations at risk and urged Israel and other authorities to take necessary [...]
What Teaching Policing and Race as a Former Police Officer Has Taught Me
The results of the Kerner Commission Report were published in the midst of racial unrest sweeping across the United States in the 1960s. The commission, established by President Lyndon Johnson and made up of bi-partisan officials, set out to investigate the cause of social unrest. It concluded that the unrest was largely triggered by police [...]
HRW: US authorities concealing information about how evidence was obtained
US authorities are deliberately concealing information about how they obtained evidence in criminal proceedings, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report Tuesday. HRW divulged findings from over a year of investigating a police practice known as "parallel construction,"...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed a bill into law on Wednesday that requires abortion clinics to have a physician with admitting privileges at a hospital within a 30-mile radius present when an...
Europe rights court rejects Italy appeal on embryonic screening law
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Monday refused to reconsider an August ruling that Italy's ban on screening embryos for diseases before they are implanted in a womb violates parents' rights. The...
Supreme Court denies challenge to funding of embryonic stem cell research
The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in Sherley v. Sebelius , which appealed a dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the federal funding of human embryonic stem cell [JURIST...
Federal judge approves DOJ settlement over Seattle police department
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington on Friday tentatively approved a settlement agreement between the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the City of Seattle relating to a DOJ investigation...
Federal appeals court dismisses challenge to funding of embryonic stem cell research
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday rejected an appeal of a lower court decision that dismissed a challenge to federal funding of human embryonic stem cell [JURIST news...
JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Riley of the University of Virginia School of Law says that a recent district court decision requiring the FDA to begin proceedings to ban the agricultural use of certain antibiotics may be a welcome opportunity to...
