JURIST Guest Columnist Lawrence Douglas, Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, says that the cell phone video of the Saddam Hussein execution has revealed it to be an exercise in revenge, not justice… Given that virtually everything associated with America’s woebegone invasion of Iraq has turned into an unmitigated disaster, was [...]
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Detainees Positive Responses, US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), September 2004, released in response to a FOIA request by the American Civil Liberties Union, January 2, 2007 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission Report, January 2007 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Lawyers representing Awad Hamed al-Bandar , former chief judge of Iraq's Saddam Hussein-era Revolutionary Court, and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti Wednesday mounted last-minute legal challenges to prevent their clients' executions, currently expected to take place Thursday before dawn. Both men were convicted and sentenced to death in November alongside Hussein for [...]
Richard Causey , former Enron chief accounting officer, has reported to the Bastrop Federal Correction Institution , a low-security facility in Texas, to begin serving his prison sentence for his role in the Enron accounting scandal . Causey was sentenced to 66 months last November after accepting a plea deal and was required to turn [...]
US ambassador-at-large for war crimes Clint Williamson told a Sarajevo newspaper in an interview published Tuesday that the United States would consider it "absolutely unacceptable" for fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic to be tried in a Serbian court in Belgrade if they are caught after the mandate of [...]
US forces left security during Saddam Hussein's execution to Iraqi authorities Saturday but would have handled the hanging "differently", US Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said during a press conference in Baghdad Wednesday. Caldwell said that US-led coalition forces transported Saddam to the execution site, left him in the care of Iraqi authorities, and then withdrew [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada has seen a dramatic decrease in the number of written decisions, reaching a low of 59 decisions in 2006 compared to 144 in 1990, according to statistics gathered by the Toronto Globe and Mail. The court has steadily decreased the number of written rulings, but still averaged 89 to 90 [...]
Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama , the Fijian military commander who led a military coup against former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase early last month, has suspended the activities of Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki and Chief Magistrate Naomi Lomaiviti pending investigations into possible corruption in the judiciary. Bainimarama said that the suspensions were necessary in order to determine [...]
Two of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants also sentenced to death in the Dujail trial will be executed Thursday, according to an Iraqi government official. Former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court Awad Hamed al-Bandar were scheduled to be executed at the same time Hussein was hanged on Saturday, [...]
