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A court in Amfissa, Greece, has found policeman Epaminondas Korkoneas, 38, guilty of culpable homicide in the shooting death of 15-year-old schoolboy Alexis Grigoropoulos. Korkoneas was sentenced to life in prison, while his patrol partner, Vassilios Saraliotis, 32, was found guilty of complicity and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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In a significant development, the Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of Santosh Kumar Singh, the perpetrator of the Priyadarshani Mattoo rape and murder case. The court, in a recent hearing, reduced the death sentence to life imprisonment, citing that the balance sheet in the case marginally favored the
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The Ohio Parole Board will hold a clemency hearing for inmate Sidney Cornwell, convicted of the 1996 murder of Jessica Ballew, on October 13, 2010. The hearing will be held at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's Central Office location in Columbus, and media wishing to attend
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Iranian officials have yet to reach a final decision in the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, who now faces execution by hanging for the alleged murder of her husband. The foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, stated that the focus is
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Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court confirmed the death sentence awarded to Sunil Gaikwad for killing his wife and two sons, and attempting to murder his 12-year-old daughter. The incident, which occurred on July 8, 2008, was described by the judges as "extremely diabolical in its conception and
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Teresa Lewis, a 41-year-old woman from rural Virginia, was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection for her involvement in the murder of her husband and stepson. Despite international calls for her sentence to be commuted to life in prison, the governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, has twice rejected clemency.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is attempting to deflect international criticism over the stoning sentence of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani by highlighting the case of Teresa Lewis, a 41-year-old Virginia woman scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. Ahmadinejad claimed that while Ashtiani's case has sparked widespread outrage, Lewis'
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Amnesty International has called for the immediate and unconditional release of Azimzhan Askarov, an ethnic Uzbek human rights activist, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his alleged involvement in the murder of a policeman during the June violence in Kyrgyzstan. The activist, who was also the director of the
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Police in Malaysia are investigating a possible history of violence and abuse by two brothers suspected of murdering a woman tycoon and three others. The brothers, who are lawyer and are among eight suspects detained, have a history of similar crimes, with at least four cases in the past year
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The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the death penalty awarded to two convicts in the 2002 Akshardham temple terror attack case, issuing a notice to the Gujarat government on their plea challenging their conviction and sentence. The convicts, Adambhai Sulemanbhai Ajmeri and Abdul Kayum, were given death penalty under POTA
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President Ziaur Rahman has granted clemency to 20 Awami League activists who were sentenced to death for the murder of Jubo Dal leader Sabbir Hossain Gama. The convicts are expected to be released from Dhaka and Rajshahi Central Jails anytime now, after the President's mercy petition was granted.
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Police authorities in Davao City filed robbery and murder charges against four members of a robbery gang, including Eduardo Priete, Benjamin Pepito, Rene Oracion, and Efren Mangunay, for their role in a bus heist that resulted in the death of a policeman-passenger. The suspects were arrested in a lightning raid
