- Making News: Doctors' Objections Halt Execution in California
An execution scheduled for California's San Quentin Prison early this morning has been postponed at least until this evening. A federal judge ordered that two doctors be present to make sure that lethal injection was not cruel and unusual punishment under the Constitution, but at the last minute, the doctors walked out. Henry Weinstein covers legal affairs for the Los Angeles Times. - Reporter's Notebook: Supreme Court Weighs In on Clean Water Act
With Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts now firmly in place, the US Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of late-term abortion. That will be sometime next fall. Today, it's hearing a case involving development on private land that could reverse decades of environmental regulations based on the Clean Water Act. David Savage covers the court for the Los Angeles Times.
California Medical Association's opposition to physician involvement in capital punishment
Los Angeles Times' article on anesthesiologists' refusal to participate in execution
Report by UN Commission on Human Rights on situation of detainees at Guant--namo Bay
Mayer's article and interview with Alberto Mora on his effort to ban abuse, torture of detainees
Farley's article on US rejection of UN Guant--namo Report
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
Savage's article on Supreme Court consideration of Clean Water Act
Savage's article on Supreme Court agreeing to hear case on partial-birth abortion