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News HRW urges probe of Kosovo organ trafficking claims
HRW urges probe of Kosovo organ trafficking claims
Brett Murphy
May 5, 2008 02:39:00 pm

New information concerning charges that separatist Kosovo Liberation Army leaders were involved in trafficking organs taken from Serb prisoners during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo justifies a probe into the allegations, Human Rights Watch said...

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News Indonesia police arrest alleged 2005 Bali bomb plotter
Indonesia police arrest alleged 2005 Bali bomb plotter
Brett Murphy
May 5, 2008 02:24:00 pm

Indonesian authorities have arrested an alleged member of the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in connection with the 2005 Bali bombings that killed 20 people and injured over a hundred,...

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News Texas judge sets execution date for Mexican national at center of ICJ case
Texas judge sets execution date for Mexican national at center of ICJ case
Brett Murphy
May 5, 2008 02:04:00 pm

A Texas court Monday set the execution date for Mexican national and Texas prisoner Jose Ernesto Medellin for August 5, after the US Supreme Court ruled in March that President George W....

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News Federal judge promises to set dollar figure on US mismanagement of Indian trust
Federal judge promises to set dollar figure on US mismanagement of Indian trust
Brett Murphy
April 29, 2008 02:45:00 pm

US District Judge James Robertson said Monday in a court hearing that he would set a dollar figure on the US government's alleged mismanagement of trust funds for a group of some 500,000 Native Americans in...

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News Pfizer resumes settlement talks with Nigeria state over drug trial lawsuit
Pfizer resumes settlement talks with Nigeria state over drug trial lawsuit
Brett Murphy
April 28, 2008 03:26:00 pm

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer resumed settlement negotiations with the Nigerian state of Kano for allegedly illegal clinical trials conducted by the drug company, Kano state Justice Commissioner Aliyu Umar said Monday. Pfizer is accused of administering 200...

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Hamdan plans boycott of Guantanamo military commission trial
Brett Murphy
April 28, 2008 03:02:00 pm

Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan said Monday that he will join fellow detainees in a boycott of his upcoming military commission trial. Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden who has...

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News Zimbabwe police arrest opposition supporters after strike staged
Zimbabwe police arrest opposition supporters after strike staged
Brett Murphy
April 16, 2008 10:19:00 am

Zimbabwean police have arrested more than 50 members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) after the party called for a strike to protest the nondisclosure of the results of the March 29 presidential elections [JURIST...

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News Peru high court upholds Fujimori abuse of authority prison sentence
Peru high court upholds Fujimori abuse of authority prison sentence
Brett Murphy
April 16, 2008 10:07:00 am

The Supreme Court of Peru on Tuesday upheld a prison sentence for former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori , who was convicted late last year on charges of abuse of authority for ordering a...

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News US prosecutors defend al-Marri ‘enemy combatant’ detention conditions as humane
US prosecutors defend al-Marri ‘enemy combatant’ detention conditions as humane
Brett Murphy
April 16, 2008 09:38:00 am

US federal prosecutors defended the prison treatment of accused enemy combatant Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri in documents filed Tuesday with the US Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit. Prosecutors say that although...

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News Iran appeals court upholds sentences of students charged with insulting Islam
Iran appeals court upholds sentences of students charged with insulting Islam
Brett Murphy
April 16, 2008 09:05:00 am

An Iranian appeals court Tuesday upheld the sentences of three Iranian students on charges of insulting Islam. Majid Tavakoli, Ahmed Ghassaban, and Ehsan Mansouri were arrested last year for allegedly publishing anti-Islamic material in multiple newspapers. The...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

First US execution by gas

On February 8, 1924, Gee Jon, a Chinese man convicted of murder, was executed by gas in Nevada and became the first person in the United States to be put to death in that manner.

The Nevada state legislature had eliminated hanging and shooting as a method of execution in 1921, and had provided for execution by lethal gas instead. Nevada sent 32 convicts to the gas chamber between 1924 and 1979. Learn more about the history of executions by gas in Nevada.

Mary, Queen of Scots executed

On February 8, 1587, Mary I of Scotland was executed for involvement in a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England. Before execution, Mary denied three times assisting the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, and crown Mary as ruler of Great Britain. Mary's guilt or innocence is debated to this day. Learn more about the Babington Plot.

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