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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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South Carolina man to be executed in US by firing squad

March 7, 2025 World Justice News 0
A South Carolina prison inmate convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat will be the first person in the US to be executed by firing squad in 15 years. If Brad Sigmon’s […]
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As Biden commutes death row sentences, how Trump plans to expand executions

December 25, 2024 World Justice News 0
With just weeks left in office, US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates – potentially thwarting President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to expand federal executions during his […]
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Joe Biden reduces all but three US federal death sentences to life imprisonment

December 24, 2024 World Justice News 0
Joe Biden has announced he is changing the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on death row in America to life imprisonment. The US president made the announcement weeks before Donald Trump takes office after his […]
David Renteria
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Texas man executed for murdering five-year-old girl after abducting her from supermarket

November 17, 2023 World Justice News 0
A man who strangled a five-year-old girl to death after kidnapping her from a Walmart store while her family were Christmas shopping has been executed. David Renteria, 53, was given a lethal injection at the […]
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Singapore executes a woman for the first time in 19 years

July 28, 2023 World Justice News 0
Singapore has executed a woman for the first time in 19 years. Saridewi Djamani, 45, was sentenced to death in 2018 for trafficking nearly 31 grams (1.09 ounces) of heroin, the Central Narcotics Bureau said. […]
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Tennessee fires officials after damning death penalty report

January 21, 2023 World Justice News 0
Tennessee has fired two top officials after a report revealed numerous errors in the state’s lethal injection system. The Department of Corrections has fired head lawyer, Debra Inglis, and Inspector General Kelly Young. The independent […]
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Firing squad and electric chair executions are ‘torture’, US judge rules

September 7, 2022 World Justice News 0
A US judge has ruled carrying out executions by electric chair or firing squad are unconstitutional and amount to “torture”. Lawyers for four inmates in South Carolina who took legal action against the state, had […]
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Human Rights

Myanmar: Military executes four democracy activists including ex-MP

July 25, 2022 World Justice News 0
Four democracy activists have been executed by Myanmar’s military in what is believed to be the first use of capital punishment in decades. The four – including activist Ko Jimmy and lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw […]
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Oklahoma official seeks execution dates for 25 inmates

June 12, 2022 World Justice News 0
Oklahoma City (AP) – Oklahoma’s attorney general has asked the state’s highest appeals court to set execution dates for 25 death row inmates following a federal judge’s rejection of their challenge to the state’s lethal injection […]

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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

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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

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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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