Fiji's High Court sentenced indigenous coup leader George Speight to death for treason today but the South Pacific nation's president immediately commuted the sentence to life in prison.
[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...
Polly Klaas’ killer wants to overturn his death sentence in the notorious 1993 case — and her father is furious. Richard Allen Davis was sentenced to death for abducting and then murdering 12 ...
A 22-year-old student was sentenced to death in Pakistan on blasphemy charges for WhatsApp messages that a court ruled contained derogatory words ...
While this month’s death sentence in a multibillion-dollar Vietnamese fraud case may show the power of Hanoi’s antigraft campaign, interviews in recent days showed continuing concerns over ...
A top property tycoon was sentenced to death in one of the biggest corruption cases in history, with an estimated US$27bil (RM128.1bil) in damages. A panel of three hand-picked jurors and two ...
Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan's death sentence is a pivotal moment in Vietnam’s anti-corruption drive HANOI, Vietnam -- The unusually harsh death sentence given to a real estate tycoon in ...
About 2,000 homicides were committed in Santa Clara County since 1978, but only 15 killers — the worst of the worst — are under sentence of death for the murders they committed over that period.
The family of Ronald Goldman, the 25-year-old waiter and friend of Nicole Brown Simpson who was killed outside her home in 1994, responded to the death of O.J. Simpson. “This is just a reminder ...
On a cold, wet November morning in 1972, Roger Bontems was marched to the guillotine for complicity in two murders, neither of which he committed. He had requested a little extra time to comb his hair ...
Austin Furr, 22, of Glenpool, was serving a five-year sentence at the McAlester prison when he was charged in state court for the death of his cellmate, 62-year-old Dong Son, in 2021.
Gadag: Former chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday called for death penalty for the perpetrators responsible for the murder of four members of a family in Gadag. Bommai visited the family ...