The Arkansas Supreme Court issued an order on Thursday stating there is no stay in place preventing the execution of eight inmates schedule for next month. The order came after Attorney General Leslie Rutledge requested that the court clarify that there is in fact no stay on the inmates’ execution. Attorneys for the inmates argued [...]
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The Mississippi Senate on Thursday voted in favor of adding more ways to carry out the death penalty. House Bill 638 , which passed in the Mississippi House of Representatives on February 8, would expand Mississippi’s methods of execution to include firing squad, gas chamber and electrocution in case the courts rule lethal injection unconstitutional. [...]
A judge for the US District Court of the Eastern District of Texas on Thursday granted a motion to dismiss the civil fraud complaint against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton . The Securities and Exchange Commission complaint alleged that Paxton, among other things, actively recruited investors for Servergy Inc., a computer hardware company, in exchange [...]
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself Thursday from probes into Russian interference during the 2016 election. Sessions was a high-ranking member of the Trump campaign before becoming attorney general and many suggested it would be appropriate for him to remove himself from the inquiry . Sessions stated in a press conference that he would [...]
The California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that texts and e-mails sent by public employees on their personal devices are a matter of public record when they deal with official business. The court found in its unanimous opinion that communications must be disclosed to the public if they “relate in some substantive way to the [...]
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the state failed to ensure sufficient funding for public schools. The court found that approximately one-fourth of Kansas’s public school students have not been provided with basic reading and math skills. If the state does not create a new, adequate funding system by June 30, then schools [...]
A judge for US District Court for the Northern District of Iowa on Thursday sentenced a man who lied about his participation in the Rwandan genocide to 15 years imprisonment followed by deportation. Gervais Ngombwa was convicted on charges of immigration fraud, with the prosecution asserting that Ngombwa was a participant in the genocide and [...]
The Egypt Court of Cassation on Thursday acquitted former president Hosni Mubarak in a retrial of charges that he killed protesters during the civil uprising in 2011 that ended his 30-year reign. Mubarak was initially convicted on these charges and sentenced to life in prison in 2012. But Mubarak strenuously maintained his innocence over the [...]
The House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines voted Wednesday to advance a proposal to reinstate the death penalty for “drug-related heinous crimes.” The legislation would impose the death penalty for several enumerated offenses, among which are the importation, distribution and possession of narcotics. The law would also be relevant to those who [...]
Federal prosecutors arrested seven Baltimore police officers on Wednesday on racketeering charges. The police officers are suspected of conducting illegal stops, stealing money and narcotics from individuals, swearing false affidavits, submitting false incident reports and participating in overtime fraud. The action may have been in response to a complaint filed in January against the police [...]
