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News Supreme Court refuses stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate
Supreme Court refuses stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate
Julie Deisher-Edwards
February 11, 2015 01:36:07 pm

Missouri executed death row inmate Walter Storey early Wednesday morning after the US Supreme Court denied his requested stay of execution. Storey was convicted and sentenced to death for a 1990 murder. He...

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News Bangladesh opposition leader arrested for instigating arson
Bangladesh opposition leader arrested for instigating arson
Julie Deisher-Edwards
February 4, 2015 01:24:20 pm

The leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and former prime minister Khaleda Zia was charged along with 55 other people on Wednesday for instigating an arson attack on a bus. In...

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News Amnesty urges countries to support refugee programs for Syria expatriates
Amnesty urges countries to support refugee programs for Syria expatriates
Julie Deisher-Edwards
February 4, 2015 12:25:30 pm

Countries around the world must show public support to Syrian refugees through resettlement and other humanitarian admission programs said Amnesty International (AI) in a report Wednesday. The report highlights the humanitarian crisis faced by individuals...

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News ICTY upholds Bosnian Serb genocide convictions
ICTY upholds Bosnian Serb genocide convictions
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 31, 2015 11:23:37 am

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday upheld genocide convictions for Vujadin Popovic and Ljubisa Beara for crimes perpetrated by Bosnian Serb forces during the 1995 Srebrenica...

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News Egypt court bans Hamas armed group
Egypt court bans Hamas armed group
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 31, 2015 09:41:32 am

The Cairo Appeals Court for Urgent Matters on Saturday banned and declared Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (Qassam Brigades) to be a terrorist group. Qassam Brigades is the armed branch of Hamas , which is itself an...

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Amnesty calls for UN sanctions, ICC prosecutions in Libya
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 28, 2015 01:48:57 pm

An Amnesty International (AI) report released Wednesday called on the UN Security Council to impose sanctions and encourage accountability through International Criminal Court (ICC) indictments and prosecutions to end the cycle of human...

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News Australia High Court rules high seas detention of asylum seekers lawful
Australia High Court rules high seas detention of asylum seekers lawful
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 28, 2015 12:51:06 pm

The High Court of Australia on Wednesday ruled that the off-shore detention of more than 150 ethnic Tamil refugees aboard an Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) vessel was lawful under the Maritime...

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Egypt court orders retrial for 152 Muslim Brotherhood supporters
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 24, 2015 10:07:25 am

An Egyptian court on Saturday ordered a retrial for 152 Muslim Brotherhood supporters sentenced in a mass trial last year. Thirty-seven were sentenced to death, and 115 others were sentenced to life imprisonment for...

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Supreme Court to review Oklahoma death penalty protocols
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 24, 2015 09:43:42 am

The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari to determine whether Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment . The case, Glossip v. Gross , originated when four death row inmates filed a...

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Supreme Court hears arguments on housing discrimination, traffic stops
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January 21, 2015 03:04:39 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday. In Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project , the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether discrimination...

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Nuremberg race laws went into effect in Nazi Germany

On September 15, 1935, the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany became effective, racially defining German citizenship and making Jews outcasts. The Reich Health Office issued the following chart in 1936 to assist in ascertaining the "admissibility of marriage between Aryans and non-Aryans." White circles represented on the chart are "pure Germans" while the circles with black indicate the proportion of Jewish heritage. Review the Nuremberg Laws on Citizenship, German Blood and German Honor, and Hereditary Health.

KKK bombs Alabama Church

On September 15, 1963, members of the Klu Klux Klan bombed a predominantly African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. The blast at the 16th Street Baptist Church killed four young girls and injured twenty other people. Despite an investigation by the FBI, no one was charged with responsibility for the crime until Robert Chambliss was convicted of murder in 1977. His accomplices, Thomas Blaton, Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry, were not tried and convicted until about twenty-five years later. Learn more about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing and the trials of Blanton and Cherry from NPR.

Nuremberg Laws went into effect in Nazi Germany

On September 15, 1935, the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany became effective, racially defining German citizenship and making Jews outcasts. The Reich Health Office issued the following chart in 1936 to assist in ascertaining the "admissibility of marriage between Aryans and non-Aryans": white circles represent on the chart are "pure Germans", while the circles with black indicate the proportion of Jewish blood.

Review the Laws for Protection of the German Race on Citizenship, German Blood and German Honor, and Hereditary Health.

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