Nigerian Stoning Death Sentence Quashed
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An Islamic court in northern Nigeria on Wednesday threw out a death by stoning sentence against a pregnant 18-year-old girl who had been condemned for adultery.
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Iran fiercely denies executing juvenile criminals or stoning people to death.
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SIR Mark Thatcher will not face the death penalty if he is extradited to Equatorial Guinea for trial over an alleged coup plot, its state prosecutor said yesterday.
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The Nigerian government denies claims that militant leader Henry Okah has been killed while in detention.
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The election of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is upheld in a court ruling ending more than a year of uncertainty.
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President Musharraf last week banned the killing of females accused of 'dishonoring' their families.
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The Indian Supreme Court upholds death sentences on two women convicted of murdering children.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.  - The Kansas Supreme Court on  Friday ruled that state's death penalty unconstitutional,  handing another victory to opponents of capital punishment.
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The Court of Appeal has Wednesday quashed the convictions of five Muslims who were jailed for downloading terrorism-related material.
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Indonesia's Constitutional Court ruled  on Tuesday that executing drug smugglers did not breach the  constitution, rejecting a bid by three Australians and two  Indonesians who are on death row to challenge the law.
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'Beaten, denied a fair trial, sentenced to death' Campaigning group Human Rights Watch has petitioned King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to halt the execution by beheading of a "witch" who in 2006 was convicted of "witchcraft, recourse to jinn [supernatural beings], and slaughter of animals".â¦
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The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday called for a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to abolishing executions, approving a resolution opposed by the U.S., China and Iran.
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A Nigerian Islamic appeal court has freed a pregnant woman sentenced to be stoned to death for having sex out of wedlock. Judge Mohammed Mustapha Umar said the conviction
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Death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting 438 children with HIV-tainted blood upheld.
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Libya&#39;s Supreme Court on Wednesday  upheld death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses and a  Palestinian doctor for deliberately infecting hundreds of  Libyan children with HIV.
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Japan's top court rejects a final appeal of doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara, paving the way for his execution.
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Five boys are given custodial sentences for stoning a father who collapsed and died from a heart attack.