Eight Executed in Cancun Drug Killings
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Suspected drug gangsters murdered eight people execution-style in and around the Caribbean beach town of Cancun this week as a wave of brutal killings hit Mexico.
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A judge on Wednesday found a bus driver guilty of eight slayings, giving prosecutors their second conviction in the decade-long series of murders of women in this border city.
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Gunmen disguised as soldiers killed seven people at two police stations in the troubled Mexican resort of Acapulco on Tuesday, despite a military crackdown against violent drug gangs.
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Eight men whose skeletal remains were discovered last year in Fort Myers were the victims of homicide, police said Friday.
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A man who killed an elderly woman with a metal can and a pair of scissors in a drunken attack eight years ago was executed Thursday by injection.
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Warring drug cartels have brought a surge in gruesome violence to this Mexican resort town.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man was put to death  by lethal injection on Wednesday for murdering two teen-agers  while high on drugs in 1995.
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Federal investigators said Thursday that two Mexico City police and 27 other people face homicide charges in the horrific vigilante killings of two federal agents this week.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 21 -- Mexican authorities have quietly released an 859-page report that describes how three Mexican governments killed, tortured and disappeared dissidents and political opponents from the late 1960s until 1982.
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Eight officials, including a former army chief, are sentenced for abuses during Argentina's military dictatorship.
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Mexico's top-security jails are on maximum alert after the killing of six prison staff blamed on drug gangs.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Hit men from Mexico's drug gangs are breaking traditional codes of honor by killing children in a chilling new chapter of a narcotics war that President Felipe Calderon is struggling to control.
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The bodies of nine people, including three federal agents, were discovered at two sites outside Cancun, Mexico, and police are blaming the killings on a drug turf war in the Mexican resort city.
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Ten alleged gang members were convicted Thursday in the killings of 12 women, some of the hundreds who have been found slain in this border city in recent years.
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The boss of Colombia's biggest remaining cocaine cartel was shot dead in neighboring Venezuela in an apparent settling of scores among drug gangs, authorities said on Friday.
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CANCUN, Mexico Police in Mexico are blaming nine murders in the Cancun (kan-KOON&#39;) area on a drug turf war. Five bodies have been found just off the highway leading to the airport.
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Suspected Islamist rebels killed eight paramilitary gendarmes when they ambushed their convoy in eastern Algeria, a security source said on Friday.