Mental Illness
,Victims' Families
,Federal Death Penalty
,Sep 07, 2023
Family members of some of the victims of 9/11 have asked the Biden Administration to abandon current plea negotiations with Guantánamo detainees that would remove the possibility of death sentences for the men accused of planning the 9/11 terror a…
Military
,Jul 16, 2018
The U.S. Air Force has announced that the Guantánamo military commission’s USS Cole death-penalty judge, Air Force Colonel Vance Spath (pictured) is retiring, injecting new uncertainty into war court proceedings a…
Human Rights
,Military
,Jul 21, 2021
After clashing with Biden administration officials over the propriety of using statements obtained through torture from Guantánamo detainees, Army Brigadier General Mark S. Martins (pictured), the chief prosecutor…
Military
,Jan 10, 2019
The already chaotic Guantánamo death-penalty trial of Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, accused of orchestrating the October 2000 attack on the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole, hit another snag as the most recent judge assign…
Human Rights
,Military
,Aug 22, 2023
On August 18, 2023, a military judge in Guantanamo Bay overseeing the pretrial capital prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the Saudi national accused of organizing the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, excluded Mr. al-Nishiri’s confessi…
Representation
,Federal Death Penalty
,Military
,Apr 04, 2008
After the Pentagon announced earlier this year that it would seek the death penalty for six Guantánamo Bay detainees, little progress has been made in the case. According to The American Lawyer, the military commissions have had d…
Human Rights
,Military
,Feb 15, 2022
In what one analyst described as “an important step to restore the rule of law,” the U.S. Department of Justice has pledged not to use statements obtained by torture in its Guantánamo Military Commissions prosecut…
Military
,Aug 10, 2017
A federal appeals court in Washington has ordered the recusal of a military judge from hearing an appeal in the Guantánamo military commission death penalty trial of five defendants accused of direct responsibility for the 9/11 attacks
Military
,Apr 17, 2019
A civilian federal appeals court has dealt another blow to the Guantánamo military commission death-penalty proceedings, striking more than two years of decisions in the USS Co…
Costs
,Military
,Sep 23, 2019
As U.S. taxpayers pick up a tab of more than $6 billion and climbing, former top officials involved in the military commission death-penalty cases against Guantánamo Bay detainees have blasted the military tribunals for waste, mis…
Costs
,Military
,Sep 23, 2019
As U.S. taxpayers pick up a tab of more than $6 billion and climbing, former top officials involved in the military commission death-penalty cases against Guantánamo Bay detainees have blasted the military tribunals for waste, mis…
Federal Death Penalty
,Military
,May 02, 2018
Six detainees charged with capital crimes are currently being held at the U.S. Naval Base military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Much of the information relating to these cases is classified and all the participants in the cases…
Human Rights
,Mental Illness
,Federal Death Penalty
,Military
,Sep 28, 2023
On September 21, 2023, a military judge in Guantanamo Bay ruled that Ramzi Bin al Shibh, one of five defendants in the 9/11 case for whom the death penalty is being sought, is mentally incompetent to stand trial. Mr. Bin al Shibh, who has been det…
Human Rights
,Military
,Sep 16, 2022
A second military commissions prosecutor who had advocated using testimony obtained by torture against defendants in the death penalty trial of the Guantánamo detainees charged with the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. C…
Representation
,Military
,Feb 20, 2018
A Guantánamo military commission judge has indefinitely suspended proceedings in the death-penalty trial of Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, accused of planning al-Qaida’s alleged 2000 bombing of the Navy warship USS Cole…
Military
,Mar 22, 2017
Lawyers for Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, the man accused of plotting the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, are seeking U.S. Supreme Court intervention to prevent his trial before a military tribunal in which Nashiri fa…
Prosecutorial Accountability
,Military
,Aug 20, 2018
A Guantánamo military commission judge has barred prosecutors from using statements five accused 9/11 plotters made to the FBI after they had been subjected to years of torture in CIA black sites. On August 17, 2018, the military …
Human Rights
,New Voices
,Military
,Feb 14, 2023
In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Theodore B. Olson, former U.S. Solicitor General from 2001 to 2004 during President George W. Bush’s administration, called for a halt to the use of the death penalty against those…
Military
,Mar 26, 2020
NEWS (3/25/20): Guantánamo Bay — In an action that adds further uncertainty to the already tumultuous proceedings in the Guantánamo Sept. 11 death-penalty trial, the military commission judge presiding over the case has announced that he w…
Representation
,Military
,Feb 14, 2018
The sudden firing by U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (left) of the Pentagon official who oversaw military commission trials at Guantánamo Bay has raised concerns of political interference in …
Federal Death Penalty
,Military
,Mar 18, 2022
Military prosecutors and defense attorneys are reportedly discussing plea deals that could take the death penalty off the table in the Guantánamo military commission cases of five men accused of involvement in the September 11, 2001 terrorist atta…
United States Supreme Court
,Apr 11, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed as the first African-American woman to serve as a justice of the United States Supreme Court. On April 7, 2022, by a vote of 53 – 47, the U.S. Senate confirmed Presi…
Military
,Sep 11, 2017
Sixteen years later, the alleged perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, and the downing of Flight 93, have yet to be tried, and issues relating to the use of evidence obtained by tortu…
International
,Crimes Punishable by Death
,Military
,Feb 11, 2008
The U.S. government has decided to seek the death penalty against six Guantánamo detainees who are accused of having central roles in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The defendants will be tried before Military Commissions
Prosecutorial Accountability
,Representation
,Foreign Nationals
,Federal Death Penalty
,Military
,Oct 16, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied review of a petition filed by lawyers on behalf of Abd al Rahim al Nashiri — accused of orchestrating al-Qaida’s October 12, 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole warship off the coa…
