An Act to Eliminate the Death Penalty, December 17, 2007 . Read the full text of the bill . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The ranking member of the US House Select Committee on Intelligence said Sunday that the committee would proceed with its investigation into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects, despite the Justice Department's advice that the CIA not cooperate with the probe and request that the committee delay its investigation pending [...]

Some 50,000 detainees held by Iraqi and US authorities in Iraqi could be freed by the end of 2008, an Iraqi official said Sunday. Iraqi national security advisor Muwafaq al-Rubaei said that 24,000 detainees held in facilities run by the Iraqi defense, interior and justice ministries could be freed under what appears to be an [...]

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has suspended the country's attorney general on charges of corruption and established a three-person tribunal to investigate the charges. Officials charged Attorney General Sobusa Gula-Ndebele in November with acting contrary to or inconsistent with his duty as a public officer in violation of section 174 (1) of the Criminal Law (Codification [...]

The chairman of one of Pakistan's two leading opposition groups said Sunday that his party would seek to reverse constitutional amendments unilaterally promulgated by President Pervez Musharraf in association with his lifting of emergency rule on Saturday. Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Raja Zafarul Haq said that the PML-N, led by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says the time has come to call President Pervez Musharraf – the latest of Pakistan's military "Caesars" – to account for his contemptuous disregard of Pakistan's constitution and the rule of law… Gaius Julius Caesar, the Roman military and political dictator, is the role [...]

Participants in the United Nations Climate Change Conference agreed in Bali, Indonesia Saturday to a timetable for negotiating a new international treaty on global warming . Under the "Bali Roadmap" , the 187 participating nations pledged to a negotiate a new agreement to replace the expiring Kyoto Protocol by 2009: The decision includes a clear [...]

Republican senators Friday blocked US Senate agreement to provisions in a House of Representatives intelligence funding bill passed Thursday limiting CIA interrogation methods by invoking a Senate rule against the late insertion of new language in legislation. House and Senate negotiators had added language to HR 2082 that would bar the CIA from using techniques [...]

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Saturday lifted emergency rule over the country as anticipated , issuing an order reviving the suspended constitution, entrenching members of the country's post-emergency judiciary, and insulating actions taken under the emergency from any future legal challenges. The Revocation of Proclamation of Emergency Order 2007 also provides that the parliamentary elections scheduled [...]

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday that the Department of Justice will not provide information to congressional officials regarding its ongoing probe into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects. In a letter to top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mukasey wrote: the Department has a long-standing policy of [...]