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News Federal judge allows California to move forward with first execution in 4 years
Federal judge allows California to move forward with first execution in 4 years
Erin Bock
September 26, 2010 03:36:17 pm

A federal judge ruled Friday that the state of California can move forward with plans to execute a convicted rapist and murderer later this week. Albert Brown was convicted of raping and murdering a 15-year-old...

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UN report finds Israel flotilla raid violated international law
Erin Bock
September 23, 2010 08:58:32 am

Israel's interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla violated international law, according to a report released Wednesday by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) . After conducting numerous interviews with eye-witnesses and viewing other evidence,...

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News Florida appeals court strikes down gay adoption ban
Florida appeals court strikes down gay adoption ban
Erin Bock
September 23, 2010 07:51:40 am

Florida's Third District Court of Appeal on Wednesday struck down a state law prohibiting gay couples from adopting, finding that it failed rational basis review and violated the state constitution's equal protection clause....

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Erin Bock
September 19, 2010 12:34:49 pm

A man found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the 1985 Air India bombings was found guilty Saturday of perjury. Inderjit Singh Reyat was the only person convicted for his role in the 1985...

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New York man charged with funding attempted Times Square bombing
Erin Bock
September 16, 2010 08:54:06 am

A Long Island man was charged Wednesday with providing funds to the man who attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square in May. The US Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York, FBI and New...

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Iceland commission recommends charges against ex-PM over financial crisis
Erin Bock
September 12, 2010 03:37:45 pm

An Icelandic parliamentary commission on Saturday recommended that the country's former prime minister and three other former governmental ministers be tried for negligence for their roles in the country's 2008 financial crisis. The nine-member Special Investigation Committee (SIC) published...

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Erin Bock
September 9, 2010 08:25:16 am

A Somali man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to piracy charges stemming from an attack on a Danish ship carrying cargo from a Texas-based company. Jama Idle Ibrahim pleaded guilty in the US District...

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September 6, 2010 10:38:44 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision Friday allowing two people to file habeas corpus petitions against removal orders from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) despite provisions...

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Erin Bock
September 5, 2010 04:53:40 pm

An independent journalist is expected to go on trial for allegedly libeling Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abult Gheit according to Sunday press reports. Gheit alleges that Hamdi Qandeel insulted him in an article he wrote...

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September 5, 2010 04:17:03 pm

An appeals court in Argentina Friday reopened an investigation into crimes against humanity committed in Spain during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War and the subsequent regime of General Francisco Franco . The Spanish government adopted an amnesty law...

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Phillip III of Spain expels Muslim converts to Christianity

Phillip III of Spain began the expulsion of the country's "Morisco" (Muslims who converted to Christianity and their descendants) population on April 9, 1609, based on the Crown's fears that the Morisco population retained Muslim beliefs. Hundreds of thousands of Moriscos would be expelled from the country from 1609-1614. The expulsions took place just over 100 years after Spain's Jewish population was expelled in 1492. Learn more about the expulsion of the Moriscos.

Senate approves purchase of Alaska

On April 9, 1867, the U.S. Senate voted to ratify the Treaty with Russia for the Purchase of Alaska and thereby approve the purchase of the territory from Russia for $7.2 million. Initially, the purchase was made to keep Alaska away from the British. It was politically unpopular with many Americans who denounced it is "Seward's Folly", after U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, who had lobbied for the purchase. Seward was later vindicated by the discovery of gold and oil in Alaska.

Learn more about the Alaska Purchase from the U.S. State Department.

Last beheading in England

On April 9, 1747, Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, became the last man to be beheaded in England when he was executed on Tower Hill for his part in the Jacobite rising of 1745. Learn more about the legal history and practice of beheading.

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