Slayer of 9-year-old faces death penalty
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The same jury that last week found a sex offender guilty of abducting, raping and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford must now decide whether he should be executed for the crime.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is considering whether the United States is out of step with the rest of the world, and with national and global standards of decency, by allowing teenage killers to be put to death.    Nineteen states allow capital punishment for 16- and 17-year-olds, and more than 70 juvenile murderers are on death row...
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A serial paedophile described as possibly having preyed on more young victims than any other child sex offender in Britain has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of a teen sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his grandparents when he was 12, arguing that the sentence is cruel.
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On Sunday, Aug. 15, a 16-year-old girl in the town of Neka, Iran, was executed by hanging. During her trial for charges of &quot;engaging in acts incompatible with chastity,&quot; the teenage victim did not have a lawyer.
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A paedophile who filmed an attack on an 11-year-old girl is jailed for life for a total of 89 offences.
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An Army specialist who admitted that he and a group of other U.S. soldiers raped a 14-year-old girl and killed her and her family in an Iraqi village was sentenced to 90 years in prison yesterday, by far the longest sentence for a U.S. soldier in connection with the death of an Iraqi civilian since...
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A Ballymena man is warned he faces a life sentence for an attack on a man who had to feign death.
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A 13-year old girl is found guilty of involvement in the killing of her parents and younger brother.
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BOWDEN, Alta. (CP) - A Manitoba pedophile who strangled a 13-year-old girl stunned his parole hearing Wednesday by admitting he committed crimes against 16 other people.
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A father pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing his two children, whose remains were found hidden in a wooded area three years after they disappeared. He was sentenced to life in prison.
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A man convicted of raping and killing a schoolgirl is hanged in India's first execution in nine years.
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John Bofata was nine years old when his mother died and his uncles accused him of witchcraft.
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A murder and arson defendant told a judge again Thursday that he wants to plead guilty to killing two informants against him and their three teenage relatives &#151; charges that could bring the death penalty.
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A jury found a sex offender guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl and burying her alive in a crime that led to a crackdown around the country on sex offenders
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Â· Youth who kicked man to death had violent historyÂ· Police and prosecutors warned court of danger
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Prosecutors demanded life imprisonment Wednesday for a man on trial for allegedly killing two girls and a woman in a series of murders three years ago that shocked France.