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US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione

April 2, 2025 World Justice News 0

US prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting dead UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement on Tuesday that she had […]

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China executed four Canadians for drug crimes, says Ottawa

March 20, 2025 World Justice News 0

Four Canadians were executed in China on drug-related charges earlier this year, Canadian authorities have confirmed. All of them were dual citizens and their identities have been withheld, Canada’s foreign minister Mélanie Joly said. A […]

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Judge in ‘shaken baby’ death penalty case steps down

December 4, 2024 World Justice News 0

The execution of Robert Roberson – a Texas man who was convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter – faces further delay after the judge in the case voluntarily recused herself. Roberson was set to be […]

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Questions surround German man sentenced to death in Belarus

July 27, 2024 World Justice News 0

A German man who has been sentenced to death in Belarus for terrorism has been shown in a heavily choreographed interview on state-controlled television, apparently confessing to planting explosives near a railway line. There is […]

Zahra Seddiqi Hamedani
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Iran sentences two LGBT activists to death

September 5, 2022 World Justice News 0

Two LGBT activists have been sentenced to death in Iran, a rights group says. The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported that a court in Urmia had found Zahra Seddiqi Hamedani, 31, and Elham Choubdar, 24, […]

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UK judges refuse to ban death penalty in Trinidad and Tobago

May 17, 2022 World Justice News 0

Nine of the UK’s most senior judges have refused to ban the mandatory death penalty in Trinidad and Tobago. The law dates back to when the country was a British colony. The judges expressed concerns […]

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China: Canadian citizen loses appeal against death penalty

August 10, 2021 World Justice News 0

A Canadian citizen has lost his appeal against a death sentence in China for drug smuggling. The court said it upheld Robert Lloyd Schellenberg’s sentence because evidence against him was “sufficient”. Schellenberg was initially sentenced […]

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‘Hollywood Ripper’ Michael Gargiulo sentenced to death for murders

July 17, 2021 World Justice News 0

A convicted murderer nicknamed the “Hollywood Ripper” has been sentenced to death for the killings of two women in the 2000s. Relatives of his victims wept as a judge gave Michael Gargiulo the sentence in […]

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US attorney general halts federal executions restarted under Trump

July 2, 2021 World Justice News 0

The US attorney general has ordered a pause on federal executions that were resumed in 2020 under the Trump administration after a 17-year hiatus. Merrick Garland, the US government’s top lawyer, also ordered a review […]

Mustafa al-Darwish
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Mustafa al-Darwish: Saudi man executed for crimes committed as a minor

June 15, 2021 World Justice News 0

Saudi Arabia has executed a man for offences that rights groups say he committed while aged 17, despite the kingdom’s assurance that it had abolished the death penalty for minors. Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish was arrested […]

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