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News US to resume mass fly-backs of illegal Mexican immigrants
US to resume mass fly-backs of illegal Mexican immigrants
Tom Henry
June 9, 2005 12:54:00 pm

In a program set to begin again this year on Friday, the US government plans to fly close to 34,000 illegal Mexican immigrants back to their home country in what officials describe as an effort to...

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News Advisor to South African deputy president sentenced to 15 years for corruption, fraud
Advisor to South African deputy president sentenced to 15 years for corruption, fraud
Tom Henry
June 8, 2005 02:57:00 pm

South African businessman Schabir Shaik was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in jail after being found guilty of two counts of corruption and one count of fraud, ending a high-profile case that many in South...

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News UK crime bill would ban replica guns
UK crime bill would ban replica guns
Tom Henry
June 8, 2005 12:08:00 pm

The British government Wednesday announced proposals to stop the manufacture, import, and sale of the majority of replica guns available in the UK. The plan is part of the new Violent Crime Reduction Bill [PDF...

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News Britain to extradite 1995 Paris bomb suspect
Britain to extradite 1995 Paris bomb suspect
Tom Henry
June 8, 2005 10:51:00 am

The British government announced Wednesday that it has agreed to extradite Algerian Rachid Ramda , held on a French arrest warrant for the past eight years in connection with a Paris bomb attack in 1995 that took the...

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News Britain retries Afghan warlord in torture case
Britain retries Afghan warlord in torture case
Tom Henry
June 8, 2005 09:52:00 am

A British court Wednesday began a retrial of suspected Afghan warlord Faryadi Sarwar Zardad in what may be the first instance of a country prosecuting an alleged torturer for crimes committed abroad. Zardad is believed to have...

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News US now seeking only fraction of original penalty in tobacco case
US now seeking only fraction of original penalty in tobacco case
Tom Henry
June 8, 2005 09:04:00 am

Lawyers for the US Department of Justice Tuesday asked for less than one-tenth of the expected penalty in a civil racketeering case against major tocacco companies. At the conclusion of closing arguments , government...

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Human rights watchdog criticizes UK treatment of terror suspects
Tom Henry
June 8, 2005 08:26:00 am

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Alvaro Gil-Robles Wednesday criticized the UK for its methods of detaining terror suspects . In a report to the Council Gil-Robles specifically targeted "control orders", a form...

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News Hyde UN reform bill would allow dissatisfied US to cut dues by 50%
Hyde UN reform bill would allow dissatisfied US to cut dues by 50%
Tom Henry
June 7, 2005 05:11:00 pm

Republican Congressman Henry Hyde , chair of the House International Relations Committee, introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives Tuesday calling for broad reforms to the UN. The UN Reform Act of 2005 alleges that...

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News Abu Ghraib prisoners riot after escape plot foiled
Abu Ghraib prisoners riot after escape plot foiled
Tom Henry
June 7, 2005 04:54:00 pm

The US military announced Tuesday that a riot broke out at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison over the weekend after an inmate made a failed attempt to escape from the prison. The "disturbance" took place late Sunday...

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War crimes prosecutors say Milosevic police directed Scorpions paramilitary
Tom Henry
June 7, 2005 03:27:00 pm

UN war crimes prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia introduced evidence Tuesday that former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic used his police forces to directly control a brutal Serbian paramilitary group called...

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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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