Traduction de «Supreme Court the United States » (Anglais → Français) :

On 2 February, the Supreme Court of that State lifted the death sentence on the alleged accomplice in the murder, having ruled that there were errors in the previous trial and that the evidence against the convicted men was insubstantial.

In that connection, Poland referred to rulings by the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court which confirmed that restructuring decisions placed an obligation on the state and that implementing decisions could not affect that obligation as they were mandatory i.e. not subject to administrative discretion (9).

Welcomes the abolition of the death penalty in Albania on 25 March 2007 (for all crimes); in Kyrgyzstan on 27 June 2007; in Rwanda on 26 July 2007; in the State of New Jersey (in the United States) on 13 December 2007; and in Uzbekistan on 1 January 2008; expresses its disquiet at the possibility that the death penalty might again start to be enforced in Guatemala; urges the Guatemalan Government, on the contrary, to genuinely commit itself to the universal moratorium on the death penalty; welcomes the decision by China to have all death penalty cases reviewed by the ...[+++]Supreme Court, but remains concerned that China still carries out the greatest number of executions worldwide; condemns the practising of the death penalty in Belarus, which runs counter to European values; condemns the Iranian regime's increasing use of capital punishment; is very concerned that the Iranian regime still sentences to death defendants under the age of 18;

The President of the Supreme Court and the State Attorney are elected by Parliament and appointed by the President of the Republic.

The United States of America will then be bound by this precondition, unless this is impossible for procedural reasons. One such case is when the death penalty has already been imposed before the person is handed over or when the criminal prosecution of the offence of which the person stands accused automatically implies the possibility for the competent court in the United States of America to impose the death penalty, as happens in very few states in the United States of America.

Until a few years ago, the relationship between Community law, on the one hand, and national constitutional law, on the other, seemed largely to have been clarified: although the Community Treaties contain no explicit provisions governing the question of hierarchy, the European Court of Justice had consistently upheld, since its 1964 and 1970 judgments in the cases of Costa v. ENEL and Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, the absolute supremacy of both primary and secondary Community law over all provisions of national law - including constitutional law and the fundamental rights guaranteed thereby. While the Member States' national constitutional ...[+++]courts initially concurred with this legal viewpoint to a very large extent, recent years have seen the development of resistance, which has been spearheaded by the decidedly nationally-minded judgments, which are only partially supportive of integration, issued by the German Federal Constitutional Court and the Danish Supreme Court.