NYU School of Law News
Alston reports on alleged U.S. extrajudicial executions and Guantánamo military tribunals
In a June 30 U.N. press conference, Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law and U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, called on the U.S. to ensure that innocent people are not executed. He singled out authorities in Texas and Alabama for being "strikingly indifferent" to the risk of putting innocent people to death.
Alston also criticized President George W. Bush for the administration's "lack of transparency" at the Guantánamo detention camp, and said that military trials fail to meet basic due process standards.