Word: courts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Muhammad, known as the D.C. sniper, was sentenced to death for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers, one of 10 victims gunned down during a three-week rampage around the capital in 2002. Muhammad is the highest-profile inmate to die by lethal injection since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in April 2008 that the state of Kentucky was not violating a statute prohibiting "cruel and unusual punishment" by executing prisoners using the controversial method. The ruling effectively allowed executions by lethal injection to recommence after an unofficial seven-month moratorium. (See the top 10 crime stories...
...next for the rest of the Somalis trapped in this Himalayan waiting room? Diane Goodman, acting representative of the UNHCR in Kathmandu, says despite its nonsignatory status, Nepal still has obligations toward those who cross its borders seeking refuge on humanitarian grounds. A year ago, the nation's Supreme Court ordered the government to formulate new legislation to ensure, in keeping with international laws, the rights for refugees after a lawsuit was filed by a local NGO on behalf of a Pakistani urban refugee. But the government has yet to act on the ruling, citing a lack of resources...
Despite his repeated confessions - apologizing for the killings in a 2007 Dutch newspaper interview, he remembered the period as "another time, with different rules" - Boere eluded detention for decades. After he fled captivity for Germany, a court in Amsterdam convicted him in absentia and sentenced him to death in 1949, a punishment later commuted to life in prison. An attempt to extradite Boere to the Netherlands failed in 1983 when German authorities ruled that he could have acquired German citizenship upon joining the SS. (At the time, Germany did not extradite its citizens...
...four-member team consisted of second-year law student Nneka I. Ukpai and third-year students Dominique D. Winters, Julian B. Thompson and John C. Quinn, who is a teaching fellow for Historical Study B-61, “The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice...
...business and politics and even members of his own family to establish a stronger legal foundation and investment climate. Of the nearly 150 cases it has handled, out of more than 30,000 registered complaints, the five-member team has secured a 100% conviction rate in the Corruption Court, making it one of the country's most feared institutions. (Read about SBY's efforts to woo investment to Indonesia...