Quick Glance: Trial: Teens Accused in Teacher's Murder
- The suspects were between 13 and 15 years old at the time of Samuel Paty's murder in 2020.
- Accused of pointing out the teacher to the killer at the school.
- One suspect was suspended from school nine days before Mr Paty's murder - for unrelated reasons.
- A second trial will begin next year for eight adults accused of complicity in the murder.
Quick Glance: Verdict for Teens in Teacher's Beheading
- Court verdict for six teenagers involved in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty by an Islamic extremist.
- Teacher Samuel Paty was killed in 2020 after a debate on free expression, for showing his students cartoons of the prophet of Islam.
- Six teenagers are on trial in Paris for their alleged roles in the beheading of a teacher by a radical Islamist, leading to authorities reaffirming France.
- Paty, a history and geography teacher, was killed on October 16, 2020, in a Paris suburb by Abdoullakh Anzorov.
Quick Glance: Florida court reprimands judge for actions in Parkland school shooting trial
- Florida's top court publicly reprimanded the judge who presided over the trial of Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 2018, for appearing partial to the prosecution.
- The decision by the Florida Supreme Court came after the Judicial Qualifications Commission concluded that Judge Elizabeth Scherer violated judicial conduct rules during last year's trial.
- Her decision to hug members of the prosecution and the victims’ families in the courtroom after sentencing Cruz in November led to her removal from another death penalty case involving a different defendant, Randy Tundidor, in April.
Quick Glance: Eyewitnesses: IDF Troops 'Executed' Women and Children in Gaza School
- US Muslim advocacy group demands response to reported massacre of women, children, and babies
- Al Jazeera reports eyewitness testimony accusing Israeli troops of massacring forcibly displaced women and children at a school in northern Gaza
- Reported massacre took place at the Shadia Abu Ghazala School in al-Faluja, west of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip
- Gaza health officials announced Wednesday that at least 18,608 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombs and bullets since October 7, most of them women and children, with over 50,000 more Palestinians wounded
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Quick Glance: Iran executes a second person in connection with a wave of populist protests
- DUBAI, 12 December (Reuters) - The Islamic Republic hanged a man in public on Monday after he was convicted of killing two members of the security forces, the second execution in less than a week of persons involved in anti-government rallies in Iran.
- "Majid Reza Rahnavard was hanged in public in (the holy Shi'ite city of) Mashhad this morning... He was sentenced to death for 'waging war against God' after stabbing to death two members of the security forces,"ite city of) Mashhad... He was sentenced to death for "ite city of) Mashhad this morning... He was sentenced to death for " after stabbing two members of the security forces to death, according to the judiciary's Mizan news agency.
- The US State Department criticized Iran for the death of Rahnavard on Monday.
BREAKING: The jury has reached a decision in Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz's death penalty case. https://abcn.ws/3yEF8FP
Quick Glance: A Florida jury absolves the Parkland school shooter of the death penalty.
- 13 October (Reuters) - A Florida jury opted on Thursday to spare Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who killed 17 people at a high school in the city of Parkland in 2018, the death sentence, instead recommending life in prison without the possibility of parole.
- Cruz pled guilty to premeditated murder last year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Fort Lauderdale.
- According to jury foreperson Benjamin Thomas, one juror insisted on Cruz not receiving the death punishment because to his mental instability.
- Some family members were disappointed when the jury did not recommend the death penalty.
Quick Glance: Death penalty for worst antisemitic attack in the US
- The perpetrator who stormed a synagogue in Pittsburgh's Jewish community and killed 11 worshippers will receive the death penalty.
- The same jury that convicted 50-year-old Bowers on 63 criminal charges recommended on Wednesday that he be executed for an attack whose effects are still felt nearly five years later.
- Most families of the victims called for Bowers to be sentenced to death for his crimes.
- Bowers broke into Tree of Life on October 27, 2018, and killed members of the Dor Hadash, New Light, and Tree of Life congregations, which shared the synagogue building.
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