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Oklahoma: Murder investigation launched after eight bodies found in wreckage of house fire

October 28, 2022 World Justice News 0

A murder investigation has been launched after eight bodies were discovered in a burning house in Oklahoma. The fire was reported around 4pm on Thursday in Broken Arrow, around 13 miles southeast of Tulsa. Broken […]

Four missing men found shot and dismembered in Oklahoma river

October 18, 2022 World Justice News 0

Four men were shot and dismembered before their bodies were thrown into a river in Oklahoma, US police have said. A man considered a person of interest in the case has since disappeared. Investigators found […]

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 […]

Her boyfriend killed her son but she went to jail

February 11, 2022 World Justice News 0

Rebecca Hogue’s boyfriend beat her toddler son to death while she was at work. So why is she the one being called a murderer? This story contains details of domestic and child abuse that may […]

Julius Jones: Oklahoma prisoner’s execution halted at last minute

November 19, 2021 World Justice News 0

Oklahoma’s governor has halted the execution of prisoner Julius Jones hours before he was due to be put to death. Kevin Stitt said he was commuting the sentence to life imprisonment without parole. Hundreds of […]

South Carolina court halts executions until firing squad is available

June 17, 2021 World Justice News 0

A high court in the US state of South Carolina has blocked two executions until the inmates are given the choice of death by electrocution or firing squad. A new law requires inmates on death […]

Johnson & Johnson hit with $572m fine in landmark Opioid ruling

August 26, 2019 World Justice News 0

Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson must pay $572m (£469m) for its part in fuelling Oklahoma’s opioid addiction crisis, a judge in the US state has ruled. The company said immediately after the judgement that it would […]

Oklahoma man is convicted of kidnapping his stepdaughter and holding her hostage for 20 years while he raped and abused her, fathering nine children

June 12, 2019 zoshinuk 0

By GEORGE MARTIN FOR MAILONLINE A 63-year-old man has been found guilty of raping his stepdaughter and fathering nine of her children after kidnapping her and holding her hostage for 20 years. Henri Michelle Piette kidnapped Rosalynn […]

Johnson & Johnson faces trial over opioid crisis in Oklahoma

May 29, 2019 World Justice News 0

Johnson & Johnson, one of the world’s largest drug manufacturers, has gone on trial in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit by the US state of Oklahoma. Prosecutors accuse the firm of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying […]

Oklahoma to use nitrogen gas for executions

March 15, 2018 World Justice News 0

Oklahoma plans to use nitrogen gas as its preferred method of execution when it resumes using the death penalty, the first US state to do so. The announcement was made by State Attorney General Mike […]

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Report finds ‘clear human rights failures’ in southern Scotland

October 7, 2026 0

A new report has found “clear human rights failures” across the south of Scotland with basic obligations on food, health and housing not being met. The study was carried out over eight different local authority […]

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Christa Pike set to be first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years still alive after two lethal injections

October 1, 2026 0

A Tennessee death row inmate set to be the first woman to be executed by the state in more than 200 years is still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyers have said. […]

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Killer Christa Pike is to be executed within days – but her defence say she’s a victim too

September 27, 2026 0

Ashlee Sellars last heard from her friend Christa Pike earlier this week, when Pike texted her from her cell on death row as she prepares to be killed by lethal injection by the US state […]