Legal Quandary

Amnesty condemned latest juvenile execution in Iran

By: chnarendra

Amnesty International has condemned the execution of Behnoud Shojaee, a 21-year-old Iranian, at Tehran's Evin Prison at dawn on Sunday, for a murder he was accused of having committed when he was 17.Behnoud Shojaee was sentenced to qesas (retribution) by the Criminal Court in Tehran on 2 October 2006, after he was found guilty of killing a youth ...

about 1 month ago

Losing the moral war

By: anonymous81841

A week ago, a three-member bench of the Supreme Court once again took up the issue of missing persons in Pakistan. Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry along with Justice Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Rahmat Hussain summoned law-enforcement officers in response to a camp set up on Islamabad’s Constitution Avenue. The bench asked the law-enforcement ...

24 days ago

Planners of 9/11 terrorist attack to plead not guilty in New York ...

By: kimberlydvorak

The attorney for at least one of the 9/11 attack planners announced that Ali Abdal al-Aziz Ali would plea not guilty in a New York court room. However, the alleged terrorist will not deny his role in the planning of a terrorist attack that rocked New York City and ultimately killed more than 3,000 people. Attorney Scott Fenstermaker said his ...

13 days ago

Washington Republican Party Refusing to Pay $55,000 Bill

By: McMilo

In a federal court filing yesterday, the Attorney General's Office stated the Democratic Party has paid the $37,700 it owes, yet the Republican Party hasn't paid their $55,000 bill for a court chalange to the Washigton State top two primary system. Not only has the Republican Party not paid it's debt, when asked about it, their attorney has ...

18 days ago