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Monday, October 25, 2010

“Judge blocks Arizona execution due to drug issue”: The Arizona Republic has a news update that begins, “A federal judge today blocked Tuesday’s planned execution of convicted killer Jeffrey Landrigan until Landrigan’s attorneys and the court have the chance to evaluate the drugs that Arizona has obtained to carry out the execution by lethal injection.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Arizona appeals order blocking execution Tuesday.”

Posted at 10:17 PM by Howard Bashman



“Arizona draws difficult panel for immigration appeal”: Josh Gerstein has this post at his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com.

Posted at 2:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Canadian pleads guilty to war crimes at Guantanamo court”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has a news update that begins, “Toronto-born Omar Khadr, Guantanamo’s youngest and last Western detainee, pleaded guilty Monday to committing war crimes in 2002 Afghanistan under a plea deal meant to send him home to his native Canada next year.”

The Toronto Globe and Mail has a news update headlined “Omar Khadr pleads guilty to all terrorism charges.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Canadian at Gitmo pleads guilty to all charges.”

Posted at 9:45 AM by Howard Bashman



“An Indefensible Defense”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial that begins, “It can be hard to distinguish between the Bush administration and the Obama administration when it comes to detainee policy. A case the Supreme Court agreed last week to hear, Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, is one of those occasions.”

And today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times contains an editorial entitled “The Ashcroft appeal: Does the former attorney general have immunity in a terrorism-related case? The question at least deserves to be heard in court.”

Posted at 8:00 AM by Howard Bashman