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How US death penalty capital changed its mind

February 11, 2018 World Justice News 0

Texas remains the strictest applicant of the US death penalty but its increasing reluctance to put criminals to death reflects a national trend. Kent Whitaker supported the death penalty until his son, who arranged for […]

Texas man executed for killing his two daughters

February 1, 2018 World Justice News 0

A man who shot and killed his two daughters in 2001 was executed in Texas on Thursday evening. John Battaglia, 62, called the girls’ mother before murdering his six and nine-year-old daughters in his Dallas […]

Sherin Mathews: Father of adopted girl charged with murder

January 13, 2018 World Justice News 0

The US father of an adopted three-year-old girl has been charged with capital murder after an autopsy ruled she died from “homicidal violence”. Sherin Mathews was first reported missing from her Texas home in October, […]

Texas shooting: Gunman Devin Kelley ‘had row with mother-in-law’

November 6, 2017 World Justice News 0

Texas church gunman Devin Patrick Kelley was armed with three guns and had argued with his mother-in-law before the rampage, officials say. The attack on the small church outside San Antonio during Sunday services left […]

Texas church shooting leaves many dead

November 5, 2017 World Justice News 0

At least 27 people have died after a gunman opened fire at a church in Texas during Sunday services, police say. The attack happened at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs in Wilson County. […]

Sherin Mathews: US police find body in missing child case

October 23, 2017 World Justice News 0

Police in Texas say they have found a body while investigating a case of a three-year-old who went missing earlier this month when her father sent her out of their home at 03:00 as punishment. […]

Court blocks Texas law punishing ‘sanctuary cities’

September 1, 2017 World Justice News 0

A US federal judge has halted a new Texan immigration law on “sanctuary cities” just two days before it is scheduled to go into effect. The bill aimed to force local law enforcement to obey […]

Jordan Edwards shooting: Texas police change account of death

May 2, 2017 zoshinuk 0

A Texas police department has changed a key detail in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager, amid mounting calls for the officer to be arrested. Jordan Edwards, 15, died after an officer fired a […]

Texas hit man Rolando Ruiz executed

March 8, 2017 World Justice News 0

Texas hit man Rolando Ruiz, on death row for a life insurance murder plot, has been executed after being denied a reprieve by the U.S. Supreme Court. The state executed Ruiz at 11:06 p.m on […]

Kayden Culp: 10-year-old boy with special needs ‘deliberately set on fire’ in Texas

October 6, 2016 Marie PipWjn 0

He was allegedly doused with petrol and set on fire by another boy Kayden Culp, 10, is believed to have been playing in a field with two other boys when one doused him with petrol […]

Human Rights

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 […]

Human Rights

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 […]

Human Rights

Four men held over child marriage in Sierra Leone appear in landmark court case

June 28, 2026 0

For the first time since child marriage was banned in Sierra Leone two years ago, people accused of committing the crime have been brought to trial. Four men appeared at a High Court on Friday […]