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Janet Wood Reno (July 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) was an American lawyer and public official who served as the first female and 78th United States attorney general. Reno, a member of the Democratic Party , held the position from 1993 to 2001, making her the second-longest serving attorney general, behind only William Wirt .
Attorney General of the United States: Mark Herring: 1986 Graduate Attorney General of Virginia, member of the Senate of Virginia [33] Howell Edmunds Jackson: 1854 Graduate Justice, United States Supreme Court; U.S. Senator of Tennessee [34] Robert F. Kennedy: 1951 Law U.S. Senator, New York; 1968 U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Attorney General
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
Janet Horne (died 1727) was the last person to be executed legally for witchcraft in the British Isles. [1] Horne and her daughter were arrested in Dornoch in Sutherland and imprisoned on the accusations of her neighbours. Horne was showing signs of senility, and her daughter had a deformity of her hands and feet.
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He replaced Robert B. Fiske, a moderate Republican who had been appointed by attorney general Janet Reno. [ 29 ] Starr took the position part-time and remained active with his law firm, Kirkland & Ellis , as this was permitted by statute and was also the norm with previous independent counsel investigations.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force wrote to Attorney General Janet Reno to request that the United States Department of Justice assist local authorities in their investigation. The letter cited the Justice Department's guidelines, which said a crime motivated by bias "in whole or in part" should be considered a hate crime.