David Shucosky

Review tribunals end for Guantanamo Bay detainees

January 23, 2005 11:21:00 am

The US Defense Department Saturday finished Combatant Status Review Tribunal hearings for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Following a Supreme Court ruling last year that held that detainees were allowed to...

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Austrian legislators want Schwarzenegger citizenship revoked over execution

David Shucosky

January 23, 2005 11:03:00 am

A top official in Austria's environmentalist Green Party said Saturday that California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger should lose his Austrian citizenship in the wake of his approval last week of the first California execution in three...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Five executed for witchcraft in Salem

On August 19, 1692, 5 people - four men and a woman - were executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. Learn more about the Salem Witch Trials.

USSR sentences US pilot to 10 years for espionage

On August 19, 1960, US spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Soviet Union after being convicted of espionage. Powers was captured and tried by the USSR after his U-2 was shot down while flying a mission over Soviet airspace. In 1962, Powers was returned to the US as part of a prisoner exchange agreement. Learn more about the spy plane incident from the US Department of State.