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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 […]
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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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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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First UK charges brought over 1994 Rwanda genocide

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A Rwandan man, who has been living in north London, has become the first person charged in the UK with offences relating to the 1994 Rwanda genocide, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said. Dr […]
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