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Ruth Ellis with her boyfriend David Blakely

Ruth Ellis, last woman executed in UK, granted a conditional pardon

July 8, 2026 World Justice News 0

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK, has been granted a posthumous conditional pardon. Ellis was hanged at London’s Holloway Prison in 1955 after being convicted of murdering her lover David […]

Murderer gets lethal injection as Florida continues ‘frantic’ execution spree

February 11, 2026 World Justice News 0

A murderer who killed a travelling salesman in a deadly robbery has become the first to face the death penalty in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath was given the lethal injection at Florida State Prison near […]

Somali woman executed for murdering a child in a case that sparked outrage

February 4, 2026 World Justice News 0

The authorities in Puntland, a semi‑autonomous region of Somalia, have executed a woman convicted of murdering a 14‑year‑old girl, in a rare case in the region in which the death penalty has been carried out […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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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France bans unsolicited telemarketing calls

August 12, 2026 0

France has banned unsolicited telemarketing phone calls, in what a consumer group is hailing as a “small revolution” for the sales industry. From Tuesday, unsolicited calls are prohibited for businesses in all sectors – but […]

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Ethiopian police arrest alleged leader of multi-million-dollar trafficking ring

July 22, 2026 0

Police in Ethiopia say they have arrested 17 suspects including the alleged leader of what they say is a multi-million-dollar international human trafficking network. The gang is accused of “the deaths of 60 migrants”, sexually […]

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US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship in blow to Trump

July 1, 2026 0

The US Supreme Court has ruled that babies born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship, rejecting Donald Trump’s bid to end the 150-year-old policy. In a 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that […]