May 2017 – Page 7 – World Justice News

Brooklyn man jailed for 1980 murder seeks new trial after learning he was arrested by mob cop

May 15, 2017 zoshinuk 0

BY Rocco Parascandola A Brooklyn man doing 25 years to life for the murder of a cabbie says he suffered in silence — and innocence — until he found out the detective who busted him […]

J.W. Ledford Jr., Georgia death row inmate, requests firing squad in federal appeals suit

May 14, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

A convicted murderer slated to die by lethal injection on Tuesday has mounted an eleventh-hour bid to be killed by firing squad instead. Lawyers for the condemned, J.W. Ledford Jr., argue their client has developed […]

US law boss Sessions orders harsher criminal sentencing

May 13, 2017 zoshinuk 0

The US attorney general has ordered federal prosecutors to seek harsher criminal sentencing, undoing an Obama-era policy to ease prison overcrowding. In a two-page memo, Jeff Sessions instructed US attorneys to “charge and pursue the […]

Ex-congresswoman guilty of soliciting scholarship donations for ‘slush fund’

May 12, 2017 zoshinuk 0

Former U.S. congresswoman Corrine Brown has been convicted of fraudulently soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship donations that, prosecutors say, she used for a personal “slush fund.” Brown, a Florida Democrat who served […]

International ransomware cyber attack paralyses many NHS Computers

May 12, 2017 World Justice News 0

A major incident has been declared after NHS services across England and Scotland were hit by a large-scale cyber-attack. Staff cannot access patient data, which has been scrambled by ransomware. There is no evidence patient […]

Man jailed for life after pouring paint down his girlfriend’s throat and burning her alive

May 12, 2017 zoshinuk 0

By Georgia Diebelius A man has been jailed for life after he battered his girlfriend with an iron, poured paint down her throat and burnt her alive. Anthony Porter, 33, murdered Andraya Lyons, 38, after […]

Protests outside court as 29 people are told they face trial for rape and exploitation of children

May 12, 2017 zoshinuk 0

By Richard Hartley-Parkinson Twenty nine people facing a total of more than 170 charges relating to the sexual exploitation of 18 children will go on trial next year in three separate groups, a judge has […]

Dentist found guilty of laughing gas sex attacks

May 12, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

A woman who was molested 30 years ago by a Sydney dentist who’d given her nitrous oxide, or laughing gas says she was scared of reporting the incident in case she’d hallucinated the abuse. Several […]

Jurors in pie thrower trial deadlocked; ordered to resume deliberations

May 11, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

Jurors deadlocked in Sean Thompson’s pie throwing trial were ordered to resume deliberations Thursday afternoon. Jurors told Sacramento Superior Court Judge Curtis Fiorini that they deadlocked 7-5 and 9-3 on the felony assault and misdemeanor […]

China human rights lawyer Xie Yang ‘admits being brainwashed’

May 11, 2017 zoshinuk 0

A Chinese court says a prominent human rights lawyer, Xie Yang, has admitted being “brainwashed” overseas at his trial for inciting subversion. It released transcripts in which he says he was trained in Hong Kong […]

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Senegal PM proposes tougher anti-LGBT law, doubling prison terms

February 26, 2026 0

Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has introduced legislation that could double the maximum penalty for same-sex relations, making them punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The proposal was sent to parliament on Tuesday […]

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Rare prison sentences handed to Cameroon soldiers after killing of 21 civilians

February 22, 2026 0

Three Cameroonian soldiers have been sentenced to prison for their role in the killing of at least 21 civilians in the country’s troubled Anglophone region. The jail terms for the crimes, which took place six […]

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Nigerian court orders UK to pay £420m over 1949 killing of miners

February 8, 2026 0

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27m (£20m) to each of the families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by the colonial administration in the south-east of the country. The […]

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Month: May 2017

Brooklyn man jailed for 1980 murder seeks new trial after learning he was arrested by mob cop

J.W. Ledford Jr., Georgia death row inmate, requests firing squad in federal appeals suit

US law boss Sessions orders harsher criminal sentencing

Ex-congresswoman guilty of soliciting scholarship donations for ‘slush fund’

International ransomware cyber attack paralyses many NHS Computers

Man jailed for life after pouring paint down his girlfriend’s throat and burning her alive

Protests outside court as 29 people are told they face trial for rape and exploitation of children

Dentist found guilty of laughing gas sex attacks

Jurors in pie thrower trial deadlocked; ordered to resume deliberations

China human rights lawyer Xie Yang ‘admits being brainwashed’