Five men have been sentenced to death by hanging in Nigeria’s Kano state for the 2023 murder of a woman they accused of witchcraft. The convicted men attacked Dahare Abubakar, 67, as she was working […]
Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan has lost her appeal against her death sentence for masterminding the world’s biggest bank fraud. The 68-year-old is now in a race for her life because the law in […]
A German man who has been sentenced to death in Belarus for terrorism has been shown in a heavily choreographed interview on state-controlled television, apparently confessing to planting explosives near a railway line. There is […]
Self-styled prophet Chad Daybell told the world the apocalypse was coming and spoke of dark spirits, but prosecutors say he lusted for sex, money and power. Now the former gravedigger has been sentenced to death […]
It was the most spectacular trial ever held in Vietnam, befitting one of the greatest bank frauds the world has ever seen. Behind the stately yellow portico of the colonial-era courthouse in Ho Chi Minh […]
A former Yoozoo Games executive has been sentenced to death over the poisoning of the company’s founder. Xu Yao poisoned Lin Qi’s food in December 2020 because they disagreed over how to run the business, […]
A court in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced seven soldiers to death for cowardice in the face of the enemy and murder. They were found to have fled advancing M23 […]
Oregon Democratic Governor Kate Brown will commute the sentences of all the state’s 17 death row prisoners to life in prison without chance of parole. With less than a month left in office, she said […]
A court in Iran has issued the first death sentence to a person arrested for taking part in the protests that have engulfed the country, state media say. The Revolutionary Court found the defendant, who […]
A woman has been sentenced to death for killing a pregnant mother she knew and cutting out her baby to take as her own. Taylor Parker, 29, was convicted last month of murdering Reagan Simmons-Hancock and on […]
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