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Kolsum Akbari, 56, has been accused of poisoning 11 husbands over a 22-year period in Iran. Akbari, who is awaiting sentencing, confessed to the killings, stating "I don't know how many I killed. Maybe it was 13 or 15 people. I don't remember exactly."
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A police officer was convicted of murder on March 31, 2017, for killing an unarmed young man on November 10, 2010. The officer had claimed self-defence and that the death sentence was unconstitutional, but the prosecution argued that all the ingredients of murder had been proved beyond reasonable doubt. The
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The man accused of the shooting outside a Jewish museum in Washington, which left two people dead, has been indicted on federal hate crime and murder charges. Elias Rodriguez is accused of gunning down Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim as they left an event at the museum in May. Rodriguez
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The execution of Byron Black in Tennessee on Tuesday morning drew attention to the complexities of the death penalty in a graying population. Black, who spent over 35 years on death row for the 1988 murders of his girlfriend and her daughters, was put to death by lethal injection despite
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A Bangladesh court has delivered the verdict in a highly publicized murder case, sentencing three men to death and another to two years in prison for the murder of a three-wheeler driver in Bagherpara upazila nearly five years ago. The court found Jewel Khan, Harun-or-Rashid, and Alamin guilty of the
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A Nigerian police officer was sentenced to death in 2017 for the murder of an unarmed civilian in 2010. The officer, convicted by a High Court, had argued that he acted in self-defense and was not guilty of murder. However, the prosecution contended that the officer's actions were
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Private Sean Rooney, a 24-year-old Irish peacekeeper, was killed on December 14, 2022, while on UN duty in Beirut, Lebanon, when the armored vehicle he was driving came under fire. Rooney's murder sparked an investigation, and in a recent military court trial, Mohammed Ayad was sentenced to death
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The Calcutta High Court has commuted the death sentences of two men convicted of raping and murdering a five-year-old child in 2021. The court, while emphasizing the gravity of the crime, considered the socio-economic background and mental health status of the accused, Fagun Mandi and Rabindra Routh, in determining the
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Richard Glossip, a former Oklahoma death row inmate, will remain in custody as he awaits a new trial after the US Supreme Court tossed his conviction and death sentence in the 1997 killing of his former boss Barry Van Treese. The state argued that Glossip's guilt of a
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U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the Justice for Victims of Illegal Alien Murders Act, legislation that would create a new federal offense for an illegal alien or deportable alien who commits murder in the United States. This legislation, introduced in the Senate, is companion legislation to a bill
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A US judge has sentenced officer Brett Hankison to 33 months for violating Breonna Taylor's civil rights, a sentence far less than what prosecutors had requested. This decision comes after a federal jury found Hankison guilty of using excessive force in 2024. The case is part of a
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The Supreme Court of Nigeria has upheld a lower court's decision to retry Yahaya Ibrahim, who was sentenced to death for his alleged role in a 2011 homicide in Kano State. Ibrahim's appeal against the Court of Appeal's decision was dismissed by a five-member
