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Liu Han, former chairman of Hanlong Mining. ©Reuters/Stringer China sentences mining tycoon to death A Chinese court on Friday convicted a mining billionaire said to have links with former security tsar Zhou Yongkang of murder and sentenced him to death.
23 мая 2014
©Reuters/Damir Sagolj Teenager test case in Maldives death penalty revival A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder over a fatal stabbing in the Maldives, becoming the first minor to be accused of a capital offence since the death penalty was reintroduced, officials said.
22 мая 2014
©Reuters/Benoit Tessier Pakistan couple gets death over 'blasphemous' text message A court in eastern Pakistan has sentenced a Christian couple to death for sending a blasphemous text message insulting to the Prophet Mohammed, their lawyer said Saturday.
05 апреля 2014
Djohar Tsarnaev. ©Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk FBI wanted Boston bombing suspect 'to be informant' The defense for accused Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say the FBI approached his brother and fellow suspect Tamerlan about becoming an informant on the Chechen and Muslim community.
29 марта 2014
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. ©Reuters/Toru Hanai Japan public sceptical on death penalty: study Japan's public is less enthusiastic about capital punishment than government research shows, a new study has claimed, amid an acceleration in the rate of executions under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
20 февраля 2014
Photo courtesy of msktambov.ru Kazakhstan has no need for death penalty: criminal law expert I believe that life-long sentence is a severe enough punishment and the restrictions it imposes on a person are tough enough to view it as a real alternative to death penalty: Kazakhstan professor of criminal law.
29 января 2014
Criminal Code. © Yaroslav Radlovsky Kazakhstan MPs suggest removing death penalty from Criminal Code In December 2003 Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev introduced an unlimited moratorium on capital punishment.
23 января 2014
Zhang Shuxia, an obstetrician involved in baby trafficking, stands trial in Weinan Intermediate People's Court in Weinan, Shaanxi province, December 30, 2013. ©Reuters/China Daily China doctor guilty of baby trafficking A Chinese court on Tuesday convicted an obstetrician of abducting newborn babies and gave her a suspended death sentence.
14 января 2014
Bangladesh top court orders senior Islamist to hang Bangladesh's top court Tuesday sentenced to death a senior Islamist opposition official for murder during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan.
17 сентября 2013
Nidal Hasan. ©REUTERS US court martial sentences Fort Hood shooter to death A military jury sentenced a US Army officer to death Wednesday for carrying out an Al-Qaeda inspired mass shooting on the Fort Hood base in Texas that left 13 dead.
29 августа 2013
©REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino US convict who was 'too fat to execute' dies in jail A 485-pound (220-kilogram) convicted murderer who escaped execution after his lawyers argued he was too fat to be put to death has died in prison.
28 июля 2013
New York court sentences cop killer to death A US federal court in New York on Wednesday sentenced convicted cop killer Ronell Wilson to death by lethal injection for a second time.
25 июля 2013
China's former railways minister, Liu Zhijun, attends a trial for charges of corruption and abuse of power. ©REUTERS/CCTV via Reuters TV Suspended death for China ex-minister's 'huge' bribery China's former railways minister Liu Zhijun was given a suspended death sentence Monday for "especially huge" bribery.
09 июля 2013
©REUTERS Texas executes 500th inmate since death penalty reinstated The US state of Texas on Wednesday executed its 500th convict since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, a record in a country where capital punishment is in decline elsewhere.
27 июня 2013
©REUTERS Execution-free world getting closer: Amnesty The use of the death penalty is broadly diminishing around the world although a handful of countries that had not used capital punishment for several years resumed executions in 2012.
10 апреля 2013
Photo courtesy of sergeev.us US to see first electric chair execution since 2010 An American who murdered two fellow inmates to speed up his execution faces death on the electric chair Wednesday, the first execution of its kind since 2010, authorities.
18 января 2013
©REUTERS Record backing expected for UN anti-death penalty vote A record number of countries are expected to back a UN General Assembly call for a moratorium on capital punishment on Thursday.
20 декабря 2012
Trial proceeding. ©REUTERS US to seek death penalty in Afghan massacre case Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for an American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in one of the most appalling atrocities of the war.
20 декабря 2012
Photo courtesy of wbzr.com Record number back UN vote against death penalty A record 110 countries on Monday backed a resolution voted every two years at a UN General Assembly committee calling for the abolition of the death penalty.
21 ноября 2012
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