CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand—The man who murdered 51 people in live-streamed attacks on two New Zealand mosques was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, the first time the country has imposed a punishment that denies any chance of release. The March 15, 2019, massacre in the southern city of Christchurch, which brought about a national ban on semiautomatic weapons, was the deadliest peacetime shooting in New Zealand.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 27, 2020 02:24 UTC