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Dubai court upholds death sentence for girlfriend's murderer

30 Aug 2025

Dubai Appellate Court upheld the first-instance court’s ruling sentencing a young Arab man to death for the premeditated murder of his European girlfriend on a staircase near her apartment....

UAE sentences three to death in murder of Moldovan-Israeli citizen Kogan

31 Mar 2025

The Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeals' State Security Chamber has unanimously convicted the defendants of the kidnapping and murder of Moldovan-Israeli citizen Zvi Kogan. Three defendants have been...

US carries out third and fourth executions of week

21 Mar 2025

Two US states executed convicted murderers on Thursday, the third and fourth death sentences carried out in the country this week. In Oklahoma, a man convicted of killing a...

Biden is breaking his promise to end federal death penalty

22 Jul 2023

Josh Marcus, The Independent At first, hopes were high among criminal justice activists that Joe Biden, one of the key architects of mass incarceration, was turning a new leaf....

Biden inaction, mixed signals on death penalty

18 Jan 2023

In Boston, the Justice Department is pressing judges to uphold Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence. In New York, it’s asking jurors to impose the death penalty on a man...

Virginia first southern US state to abolish death penalty

25 Mar 2021

Virginia on Wednesday became the first southern US state to abolish the death penalty and the 23rd state in the country to end capital punishment. Democratic Governor Ralph Northam...

Two doctors convicted over death of a female patient in Abu Dhabi

03 Aug 2020

Sohaila Ahmed, Staff Reporter The UAE Supreme Federal Court upheld the Public Prosecution’s appeal against a verdict acquitting two doctors from the charge of causing the death of a...

Bangladesh executes killer of founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

12 Apr 2020

Bangladesh has executed a military captain less than a week after he was arrested after nearly 25 years on the run over the assassination of the country's founding leader,...

Japanese court awards death penalty for murder of 19 differently-abled people

16 Mar 2020

A Japanese court Monday sentenced a former care home employee to hang for knifing to death 19 differently-abled people and injuring others four years ago in the deadliest mass...

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