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1 | Washington The Supreme Court Steps In On the Death Penalty Troy Davis, a Georgia man sentenced to death in 1991 for the murder of an off-duty cop, has long maintained his innocence. In the first decision of its kind in nearly 50 years, the U.S. Supreme Court is...
The cartel is dead and has been replaced by a brutally competitive environment in which the price of trading has plunged. It's a market in which exchanges do constant battle over trading volume. The biggest volume generators at the moment are high-frequency trading firms you've never heard...
Over the past two days news reports have quoted unnamed officials as saying the IG's findings include instances where CIA interrogators used power drills and even a gun to threaten a detainee; on another occasion, as first reported by Newsweek, they allegedly staged a mock execution. If true, these...
The new case documents do suggest the Billings murders were a "hit." Billings, for example, was shot six times with a 9-mm handgun - once in the back of each leg, twice in the face and twice in the back of the head, the kind of deliberate execution-style pattern...
Among the questions: Is the district judge advising the Supreme Court on how to handle the Davis case or is the matter now formally in the district court again? Do the three silent Justices, who signed neither opinion - Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito - have...