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Iran Hangs 3, Including Teen Accused Of Killing Cops During January Protests
Iran executed three men on Thursday who were accused of killing police officers during protests in January.
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Singapore Executes Third Drug Trafficking Prisoner In Less Than A Week
Singapore executed a 39-year-old man who was convicted of trafficking heroin, the city-state's fifth hanging this year and the third in just over a week, authorities said on Thursday.
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Saudi Prosecutor Seeks Death Sentences As Khashoggi Murder Trial Opens
Saudi Arabia's attorney general sought the death penalty for five of 11 defendants charged with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as their high-profile trial opened in Riyadh on Thursday.
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Ranchi Court Awards Death Sentence To Man For Triple Murder
A court in Ranchi today awarded death sentence to a man for killing his father, step-mother and step-brother in 2014.
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Turkey's Pro-Kurdish Opposition Would Not Support Death Penalty
Turkey'spro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) would not support any proposal put to parliament on the reintroduction of the death penalty following a failed coup attempt, party spokesman Ayhan Bilgen told Reuters.
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Florida Man Who Killed 3 Women Scheduled For Execution
Oscar Ray Bolin was first found guilty of murdering three women nearly 30 years ago. In the decades since, every one of the verdicts delivered by juries in three separate trials was reversed at least twice by appeals courts, although ultimately he was convicted again in each case: 10 times by 10 juries, to be exact.
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Death Row Inmate to Ask US Top Court to Consider Death Penalty
A death row inmate in Oklahoma who unsuccessfully sought to ban a controversial drug used in lethal injections will ask the Supreme Court to consider if capital punishment is constitutional, his lawyer said Friday.
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Guinea Prosecutor Demands Death Penalty Over Ebola Murders
A prosecutor called Monday for the death penalty for 15 people accused of the murders of a nine-member Ebola education team in southern Guinea, judicial sources said.
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China Court Gives Out New Death Penalty After Wrongful Execution
A court in China sentenced a man to death on today for crimes including the murder and rape of a woman in 1996 which another person was wrongly executed for before being exonerated last year, state media reported.
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Iran Hangs 3, Including Teen Accused Of Killing Cops During January Protests
Iran executed three men on Thursday who were accused of killing police officers during protests in January.
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Singapore Executes Third Drug Trafficking Prisoner In Less Than A Week
Singapore executed a 39-year-old man who was convicted of trafficking heroin, the city-state's fifth hanging this year and the third in just over a week, authorities said on Thursday.
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Saudi Prosecutor Seeks Death Sentences As Khashoggi Murder Trial Opens
Saudi Arabia's attorney general sought the death penalty for five of 11 defendants charged with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as their high-profile trial opened in Riyadh on Thursday.
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Ranchi Court Awards Death Sentence To Man For Triple Murder
A court in Ranchi today awarded death sentence to a man for killing his father, step-mother and step-brother in 2014.
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Turkey's Pro-Kurdish Opposition Would Not Support Death Penalty
Turkey'spro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) would not support any proposal put to parliament on the reintroduction of the death penalty following a failed coup attempt, party spokesman Ayhan Bilgen told Reuters.
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Florida Man Who Killed 3 Women Scheduled For Execution
Oscar Ray Bolin was first found guilty of murdering three women nearly 30 years ago. In the decades since, every one of the verdicts delivered by juries in three separate trials was reversed at least twice by appeals courts, although ultimately he was convicted again in each case: 10 times by 10 juries, to be exact.
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Death Row Inmate to Ask US Top Court to Consider Death Penalty
A death row inmate in Oklahoma who unsuccessfully sought to ban a controversial drug used in lethal injections will ask the Supreme Court to consider if capital punishment is constitutional, his lawyer said Friday.
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Guinea Prosecutor Demands Death Penalty Over Ebola Murders
A prosecutor called Monday for the death penalty for 15 people accused of the murders of a nine-member Ebola education team in southern Guinea, judicial sources said.
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China Court Gives Out New Death Penalty After Wrongful Execution
A court in China sentenced a man to death on today for crimes including the murder and rape of a woman in 1996 which another person was wrongly executed for before being exonerated last year, state media reported.
