On June 12th in US Political History
Part VII
On June 12th in 2000 The U.S. Justice Dept. agreed to compensate the Nixon estate $18 million for the tapes and Presidential papers seized in 1974.
On June 12th in 2001 President Bush on his 1st major overseas trip meet with Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in Madrid and pushed for his missile defense shield.
On June 12th in 2001 A federal court in NYC sentenced Mohamed Al-'Owhali, a Saudi Arabian follower of Osama bin Laden, to life in prison without parole for his role in the deadly 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya.
On June 12th in 2006 U.S. officials said that the Cuban government had cut off electricity to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana on June 5 and that requests for power to be restored have gone unanswered. Power was restored the next day.
On June 12th in 2006 The U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for more death row inmates to challenge execution by lethal injection. In an unanimous decision, the court allowed those condemned to die to make last-minute claims that the chemicals used are too painful, and therefore amount to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
On June 12th in 2006 FBI statistics confirmed that violent crime in the US was on the rise, posting its biggest one-year increase since 1991.
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