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Commentary Pakistan must restore sacked judges without delay
Pakistan must restore sacked judges without delay
April 28, 2008 10:50:00 am

Ali Khan : "Pakistan's ruling Coalition has less than forty-eight hours left to fulfill their pre-election promise with the nation to restore the high court judges that General Musharraf fired by means of the 2007 Emergency...

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Commentary Reformist Muslims need legal protection from blasphemy accusations
Reformist Muslims need legal protection from blasphemy accusations
April 27, 2008 12:31:00 pm

Farzana Hassan and Tarek Fatah : "How long will it take the leadership of North America's traditional Muslim leadership to embrace the First amendment of the United Sates constitution and the doctrine of...

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Commentary PHOTOS: Meeting the ousted Chief Justice of Pakistan
PHOTOS: Meeting the ousted Chief Justice of Pakistan
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 26, 2008 03:43:00 pm

Faisal Naseem Chaudhry : "On April 22, a delegation of Lahore-based lawyers called on deposed Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry at his residence in the capital Islamabad. Since many could had wished to become...

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Commentary Don't Kick Contractors Off the Battlefield: Just Hold Them Accountable
Don't Kick Contractors Off the Battlefield: Just Hold Them Accountable
Jeremiah Lee
April 24, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Tara Lee, a former Navy JAG now practising national security law, says that kicking contractors off the American battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan is not the answer to alleged problems and abuses; security contractors aren't mercenaries and...

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Commentary Supreme Court lethal injection ruling a setback
Supreme Court lethal injection ruling a setback
April 23, 2008 04:11:00 pm

Julien Ball : "Back to the killing game. That is what the Supreme Court's decision upholding the method of execution known as "lethal injection" means. Thirty-five states that use the death penalty put...

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Commentary Fourth Amendment rights curtailed by Bush administration…but to what extent?
Fourth Amendment rights curtailed by Bush administration…but to what extent?
April 22, 2008 08:10:00 pm

Daniel M. Smith : "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power...

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Commentary UK ex-Guantanamo detainees suit: no room for arbitrary detention and torture
UK ex-Guantanamo detainees suit: no room for arbitrary detention and torture
April 22, 2008 02:00:00 pm

Asim Qureshi : "After years of being held in detention without charge, the British men released from Guantanamo Bay who are pursuing legal action against the intelligence services are sending a very clear message to both governments and...

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Commentary Death penalty debate still alive after Supreme Court decision in <u>Baze v. Rees</u>
Death penalty debate still alive after Supreme Court decision in Baze v. Rees
April 21, 2008 05:18:00 pm

Richard C. Dieter : "On April 16, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a splintered decision on the constitutionality of Kentucky's lethal injection process. Despite the seven different opinions, there were many aspects of the decision...

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Commentary Supreme Court vindicates Kentucky execution procedures in <u>Baze v. Rees</u>
Supreme Court vindicates Kentucky execution procedures in Baze v. Rees
April 21, 2008 05:05:00 pm

John Cummings : "The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Baze v. Rees represents a sweeping vindication of the Commonwealth of Kentucky's execution procedures against constitutional attack. The plurality...

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Commentary Despite Kentucky death penalty ruling, Supreme Court justices offer hope
Despite Kentucky death penalty ruling, Supreme Court justices offer hope
April 19, 2008 10:21:00 am

Sarah Tofte : "On April 16, in Baze v. Rees, the US Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated ruling on the constitutionality of Kentucky's use of lethal injection as a method of execution. Although on the surface...

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Guiteau tried for assassinating US President Garfield

On November 14, 1881, Charles Guiteau went on trial for the assassination of US President James A. Garfield. The trial of Guiteau pointed to problems with nineteenth-century law's treatment of insanity; Guiteau's trial is also problematic in retrospect as Garfield's death was immediately attributable not to Guiteau, but to Garfield's doctors who—before sterilization was well understood—repeated probed his wound with unwashed hands while searching for an embedded bullet.

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