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Iran Convicts Executed In Public
According to Reuters, state radio announced on Monday that six people have been executed in public in the northeastern city of Sabzevar, Iran. This comes as the second case of public execution in the Islamic Republic in less than a week. The convicts were described on the radio program as being depraved people, although it was not...

Iran Convicts Executed In Public
 

Spanish Court Sentences 47 Over Links to ETA
Spain's National Court on Wednesday sentenced 47 people to prison for collaborating with the armed Basque separatist group ETA in one of the country's biggest trials. Many of the convicts did not only belong to the entourage of ETA, but formed part of its very "heart," court president Angela Murillo said. The convicts...

Spanish Court Sentences 47 Over Links to ETA
 

US President Bush approves first military execution since 1961
President George W Bush has approved what would be the first execution by the US military since 1961, though court appeals are likely to continue delaying the 20-year-old case indefinitely, the White House said late Monday. A Bush spokeswoman issued a statement saying that Bush had given the go ahead for a sentence of capital...

US President Bush approves first military execution since 1961

Jury Convicts Man In Assault On Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel
A San Francisco jury found a New Jersey man guilty of felony hate crime charge of false imprisonment on Monday in the assault on Holocaust survivor and Boston University professor Elie Wiesel in 2007. Other charges were crime allegation, battery and elder abuse for pulling the 79-year-old Nobel laureate from a hotel elevator in February...

Jury Convicts Man In Assault On Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel

Cook County Jail Violates Detainees’ Rights
Detainees awaiting trial at the Cook County Jail, one of the nation’s largest local penitentiaries, have undergone extremely ineffectual medical care, maltreatments executed by jail employees and rundown, unsafe building conditions often left unfixed for months, according to an announcement released by federal authorities on...

Cook County Jail Violates Detainees’ Rights

New Jersey Takes a Step Further In Death Penalty Abolition
Since reinstalled in 1976 by the Supreme Court, the capital punishment has been widely exercised among the states of the USA. On Thursday, New Jersey became the first U.S. state to legislatively abolish it. Lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled state Assembly voted 44 to 36 in favor of a bill to eliminate the death penalty and...

New Jersey Takes a Step Further In Death Penalty Abolition

Arizona Police On The Lookout For Escaped Prisoner
Authorities are looking for two convicts that escaped from Florence Correctional Center around one o’clock on Monday morning. Kollin Folsom 24 convicted of first-degree murder for the November 1999 stabbing death of Clinton Williams, his girlfriend's father and was sentenced to 35 years in jail. The other escapee, Roy...

Arizona Police On The Lookout For Escaped Prisoner
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The federal officials have asked doctors and state health agencies to be more careful when they diagnose children because many of the kids aged under 5 can now be...

Childhood Infections Need to be Better Tracked