The High Constitutional Court of Madagascar ratified on Friday the victory of the sitting president Andry Rajoelina in the country’s most recent election. Rajoelina’s victory means he will serve a third term as Madagascar’s president. The elections were held on November 16 after the court postponed the elections for a week after Rajoelina and one [...]

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) released their annual report on Friday, reporting that for the first time more Americans believe the death penalty is administered unfairly than those who believe otherwise. The report also revealed that there were more death penalty sentences imposed than executions carried out during 2023. A majority of US state [...]

The UN Human Rights Office released a statement on Tuesday condemning Iran’s execution of 17-year-old Hamidreza Azari and 22-year-old Milad Zohrevand on November 24. The office urged Iran to impose a moratorium on death penalty cases and to cease “using criminal procedures to punish political activists and others for exercising their rights to freedom of [...]

Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to sit on the US Supreme Court, died Friday. According to an announcement from the court, O’Connor died of “complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness” at the age of 93. O’Connor was appointed to the court in 1981 by then-president Ronald Reagan. During her [...]

Hong Kong’s District Court sentenced a Hong Kong woman, Lee Yan-yan, to five and a half years in prison on Wednesday, according to Hong Kong Free Press. She was previously convicted in October of rioting, wounding with intent, and perverting the course of justice for engaging in a “vigilante” incident on September 21, 2019, the [...]

The UK Ministry of Justice announced plans to reform Imprisonment for Public Protection (“IPP”) sentences. IPP sentences, originally intended to prevent offenders considered “dangerous” from being released despite their offense not warranting a life sentence, have not been used since 2012. However, many still have ongoing IPP sentences today, leaving them in prison indefinitely or [...]

The Canadian federal government on Wednesday announced an agreement with Google that will see the tech company compensate news Canadian news publishers. This marked a shift from Google’s initial stance of potentially blocking all Canadian news content following the introduction of the new Online News Act. Under the terms of the agreement, Google will contribute [...]

A New York appellate court reinstated a gag order Thursday on former US President Donald Trump in the latest development in the state’s civil fraud trial against the former president and his family’s business. In a two-page order, the Supreme Court of the State of New York denied Trump’s appeal to stay a gag order [...]