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A 16-year-old pleaded guilty Monday to all 24 charges related to the Oxford High School shooting in Michigan, which killed four students and wounded several others. Ethan Crumbley, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, acknowledged that he knowingly and deliberately chose to shoot his classmates. His parents,
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Lauren del Valle, Holly Yan, Yon Pomrenze, and Jean Casarez, CNN In a landmark case, a 16-year-old boy pleaded guilty to all charges related to the November 30 mass shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan. Ethan Crumbley, who faces up to life in prison without parole, admitted to killing
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The South African Police Service and the National Prosecuting Authority welcomed the sentencing of Bafana Johannes Mans, 26, to three life terms for the kidnapping, double rape, and murder of 4-year-old Tshimologo Lotshabeng. Mans was found guilty of murdering the child, and the court sentenced him to life imprisonment on
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In a significant development, the High Court of Bangladesh has reaffirmed the death penalty for five individuals and life imprisonment for another in the high-profile murder case of Aftab Ahmed, a renowned photojournalist. Aftab Ahmed, who was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 2006 for his outstanding contribution to journalism, was
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Prosecutors have argued that the Parkland school shooter, Nikolas Cruz, meticulously planned the 2018 massacre, calling him a "cold, calculated, and premeditated" killer. Cruz pleaded guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder for the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in which
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A Congolese soldier, Lieutenant Richard Yav, spent 20 years on death row for a crime he did not commit after being tortured and wrongly convicted in a rigged trial. The African Commission on Human Rights considers the trial a sham. Yav was released in 2021 due to COVID-19 measures and
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A recent study from Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs has shed light on the identity of perpetrators of premeditated murder of hostages or kidnapped persons. The research analyzed existing definitions and concepts, and developed a typology of such offenders, identifying three main categories: selfish persons, pathologically rigid persons, and
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Respected botanists Rod Saunders and his wife Rachel were brutally murdered by a gang in South Africa after they were kidnapped from a remote forest, their bodies thrown into a river infested with predators. The couple spent six months a year scouring the wild mountains and forests for rare seeds,
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William MacDowell, convicted of killing Renee MacRae and her four-year-old son Andrew in 1976, made a stunning confession to journalist Alan Dow about his affair with Renee. MacDowell, 35 at the time of the crime, had lured Renee and Andrew to a lay-by on the A9 south of Inverness with
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The trial of 80-year-old William MacDowell continues in the High Court in Inverness, where he denies murdering his lover, 36-year-old Renee MacRae, and their three-year-old son, Andrew, in a layby south of Inverness on November 12, 1976. The prosecution presented key evidence from various witnesses, including Kenneth Goudie, MacDowell'
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Serial host Sarah Koenig has described the recent vacation of Adnan Syed's conviction as "deja vu" for the defence, who have argued for years that there were significant flaws in the 1999 murder case. Many of the arguments made by the prosecution, calling for Syed'
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Adnan Syed, a man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, was released from prison after 23 years following a judge's ruling that prosecutors had mishandled evidence. Syed, 42, was convicted of Lee's murder in 2000 and sentenced to life behind bars. His case gained
