70
years ago on this date, November 21, 1945, Robert H. Jackson gave an opening
address at the Nuremberg Trials.
INTERNET
SOURCE: https://www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-writing/opening-statement-before-the-international-military-tribunal/
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Saturday, November 21, 2015
Friday, April 24, 2015
THE RETURN OF THE DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORISTS
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The Eight Executed Terrorists
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“If we could do away with death, we wouldn’t object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On
this date, April 24, 1996, The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
were signed into law. I will post some news sources on how several countries
are reinstating capital punishment for terrorism.
INTERNET
SOURCE: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193484#.VTpUfZPnbbz
Report: More Countries Using Death Penalty
Due to Terror
Pakistan, Cameroon, UAE adopt capital
punishment for terrorism, Kenya and Russia moving to do the same.
by Arutz Sheva Staff
First Publish: 4/1/2015, 9:00 AM
A
new report by rights group Amnesty International documents how some governments
have stepped up the use of executions as part of their counterterrorism
efforts.
The
number of death sentences recorded in 2014 jumped by almost 500 compared to
2013, mainly because of sharp spikes in Egypt and Nigeria, the group said. This
included mass sentencing in both countries in the context of internal conflict
and political instability.
Pakistan,
Cameroon, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) adopted capital punishment
against terrorism, and Kenya and Russia moving to do the same.
In
Pakistan, the government ended a six-year moratorium on the execution of
civilians after a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar in mid-December that
left at least 149 people dead, including 132 children. A fortnight later, seven
people charged with terrorism had been executed and the government promised to
execute hundreds more on terrorism charges.
Cameroon’s
legislature voted to make terrorism punishable by death in December, and an
anti-terrorism law in the UAE widened the scope of the country’s death penalty
to include various crimes related to terrorism.
Members
of Kenya’s parliament made calls for similar legislation. In Russia, four
political parties introduced a draft law to the Duma asking to end the
country’s moratorium on the death penalty, in place since the 1990s, in cases
involving terrorism and murder.
The
USA continued to be the only country to put people to death in its region,
although executions dropped from 39 in 2013 to 35 in 2014 – reflecting a steady
decline in the use of the death penalty in the country over the past years.
China
again carried out more executions than the rest of the world put together.
Amnesty International believes thousands are executed and sentenced to death
there every year, but says that since the numbers are kept a state secret, the
true figure is impossible to ascertain.
The countries
making up the world’s top five executioners in 2014 aside from China were Iran
(289 officially announced and at least 454 more that were not), Saudi Arabia
(at least 90), Iraq (at least 61) and the USA (35).
In
countries such as North Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia, governments continued to
use the death penalty as a tool to suppress political dissent.
Other
states made use of capital punishment in attempts to tackle crimes rates.
Jordan
ended an eight-year moratorium in December, putting eleven murder convicts to
death, with the government saying it was a move to end a surge in violent
crime. In Indonesia, the government announced plans to execute mainly drug
traffickers to tackle a public safety “national emergency.”
THE THIRD REICH VOLKSGERICHTSHOF: PEOPLE’S COURT
70 years ago on this date, April 24, 1945, the People’s Court of Nazi Germany ceased its activity. I will post information about this Court from Wikipedia and other links.
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Judge Roland Freisler (centre) at the
People's Court
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The
People's Court (German: Volksgerichtshof) was a Sondergericht, a special court, established in 1934
by German Chancellor
Adolf Hitler, who had been dissatisfied
with the outcome of the Reichstag fire
Trial (all but one of the accused were acquitted). The "People's
Court" was set up outside the operations of the constitutional frame of
law. The court had jurisdiction over a rather broad array of "political
offenses," which included crimes like black marketeering, work slowdowns, defeatism and treason against the Third Reich. These crimes were viewed by
the court as Wehrkraftzersetzung
("disintegration of defensive capability") and were accordingly
punished severely. The death penalty was meted out in numerous cases in this
court.
The
Court handed down an enormous number of death sentences under Judge-President Roland Freisler,
including those that followed the 20 July Plot to kill Hitler. Many of those
found guilty by the Court died in the Plötzensee prison.
The proceedings of the court were often even less than show trials in that some cases, such as
that of Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans Scholl and fellow White Rose
activists concluded in less than an hour, without evidence being presented or
arguments made by either side. The president of the court often acted as
prosecutor, denouncing defendants, then pronouncing his verdict and sentence
without objection from defense counsel, who usually remained silent throughout.
Unsurprisingly, it did not follow the laws and procedures of regular German
trials, being easily characterized as a "kangaroo court". It almost
always sided with the prosecution, to the point that being hauled before it was
tantamount to a death sentence.
Manner
of Proceedings
The
trials of August 1944
Bombing
of People's Court
Notable
people sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof
Judge-Presidents
of the People's Court
Legal
Aftermath after World War II
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