WJN

World Justice News

Crime and Justice News from around the world

  • Main Site
    • Court & Event Schedule
    • Today’s Events
    • Weekly Calendar
    • Monthly Calendar
    • Upcoming Events
    • Archives
    • News Feeds & Links
    • Documentaries
    • Fellowship
    • Web Cams
    • Cool Bar
    • Help/FAQ
  • News Front Page
  • USA News
  • UK News
  • Canada News
  • World News
  • Human Rights
  • Other News
    • Good News
    • Strange News
    • Opinion
  • Videos
  • Log In
News Ticker
  • [ June 22, 2025 ] New York City mayoral hopeful Brad Lander arrested by ICE agents News
  • [ June 22, 2025 ] Every baby in the UK to receive DNA testing News
  • [ June 22, 2025 ] Trump takes huge gamble putting US at heart of Iran-Israel conflict Lead Story
  • [ June 22, 2025 ] UK MPs back assisted dying bill in historic Commons vote Human Rights
  • [ June 20, 2025 ] ‘No-bra, no-exam’ rule at Nigerian university sparks outrage Human Rights
Homeexecutions

executions

Canada Gavel
Canada

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 MĆ©lanie Joly said. A […]

South Carolina execution chamber
Human Rights

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 […]

Donald Trump
Lead Story

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 […]

Joe Biden Air Force One
Lead Story

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 beforeĀ Donald TrumpĀ takes office after his […]

David Renteria
Lead Story

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 […]

Singapore business skyline
News

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. […]

Execution Chamber
Lead Story

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 […]

South Carolina firing squad chair
Human Rights

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 […]

Kyaw Min Yu
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 […]

James Coddington
Lead Story

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 rejectionĀ of their challenge to the state’s lethal injection […]

Posts pagination

1 2 … 4 »

Breaking News

'No agreement' on any ceasefire, Tehran warns - despite Trump's announcement
Iran says it's carried out 'mighty and successful' attack on US base - as Qatar air defences 'thwart assault'
Russia could attack a NATO member 'within five years', Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns
How much damage did the US strikes inflict on Iran's nuclear facilities?
Israeli ambassador challenged on Gaza children deaths
Major wildfire rages on Greek island
Suspected spy arrested in Crete - home to NATO military base
Stunning first images from powerful space telescope show new 'peek of cosmos'
Bride 'shot dead on wedding day in south of France'
22 killed after suicide bomber opens fire at church - and then detonates explosive vest

Popular Posts

  • Jennifer Abbott Woman charged with murder in missing Rolex case

  • US Supreme Court US Supreme Court upholds Tennessee ban on gender transition care for minors

  • Silvia Delgado Lawyer who defended drug lord ā€˜El Chapo’ elected as judge

Chat Box

The content that would normally appear here has been blocked! This particular piece of content is only available for Registered Users who are logged in.

Human Rights

  • assisted dying freedom of choice protesters
    UK MPs back assisted dying bill in historic Commons vote
    June 22, 2025 0
  • Olabisi Onabanjo University
    ‘No-bra, no-exam’ rule at Nigerian university sparks outrage
    June 20, 2025 0
  • US Supreme Court
    US Supreme Court upholds Tennessee ban on gender transition care for minors
    June 20, 2025 0
  • X logo
    Tanzania announces shutdown of X because of pornography
    June 5, 2025 0

Latest Posts

  • New York City mayoral hopeful Brad Lander arrested by ICE agents
  • Every baby in the UK to receive DNA testing
  • Trump takes huge gamble putting US at heart of Iran-Israel conflict
  • UK MPs back assisted dying bill in historic Commons vote
  • ‘No-bra, no-exam’ rule at Nigerian university sparks outrage
Australia California Canada China copyright corruption Donald Trump extradition FBI florida France fraud Germany human rights Los Angeles Metropolitan Police money laundering murder New York rape Russia sexual assault shooting Texas US Supreme Court
  • Visitor: I was state employee for a year my family lived in EU, and a spouse without permission to work. Anne…
  • South African diplomacy on Zimbabwe can remain quiet -- but it must get tough | KAYA FM: […] enough, the demand is that ā€œsomething must be doneā€ to stop the brutality. Twelve people have already died, hundreds…
  • gman20047: Roger Stone didn't do nothing and is innocent and its this corrupt leftist judge Amy Berman Jackson who needs to…
Contact
Registration Options
Privacy Policy
Terms of Service
Community FAQ's
Community Standards
Archives

Copyright Ā© 2023 | World Justice News

X