Capital Punishment

In his trial, Mubarak has faced a call for the death sentence from the prosecution. But his main lawyer, Farid al-Deeb, on Jan. 19 sought to undermine the prosecution's case by telling the...

As the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday morning, 14 protesters were arrested outside the Supreme Court building, according to a Court spokesperson. The protesters apparently took to the...

A habeas petitioner who was effectively "abandoned" by his lawyers demonstrated sufficient cause to excuse his failure to meet a state deadline for appealing the denial of postconviction relief, the U.S. Supreme Court...

In what many consider an unprecedented development, Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre Rivero agreed to appear before the Comision Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDH) to testify about alleged human rights violations in his state....

The number of death sentences imposed this year dropped to less than 100 for the first time since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, according to a new report by the Death Penalty...

Dec. 13--After years of budget cuts, layoffs, furloughs and hiring freezes, the everyday work of state government is piling up. This Stateline series examines what causes backlogs, who is hurt by them and...

By IsraelNationalNews.com A Saudi woman was beheaded Monday after being convicted of practicing sorcery, which is banned in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the Interior Ministry said. Amina Bint Abdulhalim Nassar was executed in the...

37% of women and 48% of men believe college football teams can win a national championship without breaking the rules SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Link to survey should read: http://yhoo.it/vnKqgA (sted http://yhoo.it/uZzjJD) The corrected...

ADAP Crisis Task Force announced enhanced agreement with Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Therapeutics to provide additional discounts and rebates to AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) on all of its AIDS medications This...

AIDS group launches advocacy campaign pressuring the drug giant to heed President Obama's call for drug companies to "do their part" to help Americans get access to life-saving AIDS treatments LOS ANGELES --...

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill is passing through Parliament and is likely to come into force in October next year. It changes the legal framework enormously and is the...

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One rogue algorithm will do more damage than any human fraud to date, says Progress Software BEDFORD, Mass. -- Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables companies to be...

Despite Baghdad's position, the KRG recently resumed crude oil exports at the rate of 100,000 b/d, after having suspended a flow of 175,000 b/d on Sept. 11. It is hinting at exports of...

By IsraelNationalNews.com Syrian and Iranian-backed Hizbullah boasted Wednesday it had vanquished the CIA and Mossad. "Our security... has exposed several American and Israeli plots on Lebanon," Hizbullah' Hassan Fadlallah told reporters. "We call...

You can call it a myth, a belief, an assumption, even a wish. But the notion that the death penalty "protects" people from homicide can not be called a "fact" and should not...

Jelpi Picou got his first real taste of what life was going to be like in Orleans Parish Prison when he spent the first three weeks of a yearlong sentence last year in...