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A 75-year-old man from Thane, Shobhnath Rajeshwar Shukla, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his bedridden wife, Sharada Shukla, whom he strangled using a black thread. The couple's domestic strife was driven by a bitter dispute over property ownership, with Sharada insisting that her
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Thabo Gift Magwatane, 33, was sentenced to two life terms and an additional 45 years in prison for a string of serious offenses, including rape, kidnapping, attempted murder, and housebreaking. The brutal attack occurred in February 2022 in Dithakong village, where two 17- and 18-year-old matric learners were targeted in
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71-year-old Marie Scott, who spent almost all of her adult life in prison for her role in a 1973 robbery-murder, has been granted a chance at freedom. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an order commuting Scott's life without parole sentence, citing her extraordinary case and the support she
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Deandra Buchanan, a Missouri inmate serving a life sentence for a 2000 murder conviction, has lost his bid to reopen his case after a lower court ruled that the Missouri Supreme Court's reduction of his death sentence to life without parole was constitutional. Buchanan argued that he was
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Prosecutors in the Western Cape High Court have secured life imprisonment for Carlo Hofmeester and Chadwin Isaacs, members of the notorious Fast Guns gang, who were found guilty of the murder of 5-year-old Valentino Grootetjie in 2019. The court also declared them unfit to possess firearms. The sentencing follows a
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A German court has handed down a life imprisonment sentence to a Syrian doctor, Alaa Mousa, for crimes against humanity, including murder and torture, committed during the early phase of the Syrian civil war. Mousa, a 40-year-old former junior doctor in an army hospital and military intelligence prison in Homs
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Marie Scott, 71, who has been incarcerated for over five decades for a murder she committed as a 19-year-old after a gas station robbery, will be eligible for parole after the governor's approval of her commutation. Pennsylvania's Board of Pardons voted unanimously to recommend reducing her
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Tony Earnshaw, a notorious international heroin trafficker, has been handed a life sentence for his involvement in the abduction and murder of his uncle, Asghar Badshah, in a bid to recover £600,000 in missing drug money. Tahir Syed, 42, was told he would be locked up for at least
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The 4th Criminal Senate of the Federal Court of Justice has dismissed a defendant's appeal against a life sentence for murder, attempted murder in conjunction with dangerous bodily harm, and attempted murder in conjunction with intentional dangerous interference with road traffic. The defendant was found guilty of stabbing
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As part of the Northern Ireland Executive's controversial Communities in Transition (CIT) programme, an additional £690,000 has been allocated for projects supporting ex-paramilitary prisoners. This comes after a significant amount of funding was allocated for 2025/26, with two charities, Community Restorative Justice and NI Alternatives, receiving
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The Court of Appeals of Kosovo has rejected the appeal of the defense counsel of accused EL, confirming the judgment of the Basic Court in Peja - Department for Serious Crimes. The court found EL guilty of aggravated murder and unauthorized possession of weapons, imposing a life imprisonment sentence. The
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Cameron Moffat, one of the two men convicted of the brutal murder and mutilation of 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor in 2010, has been denied parole due to a high risk of violent re-offending. Moffat, 33, has been serving a life sentence since 2011 for charges of first-degree murder and indignity to
