Death penalty for China official
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China sentences the former head of its Food and Drug Administration to death for corruption, state media says.
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China's former drug and food safety watchdog chief was executed on Tuesday after being found guilty of corruption and dereliction of duty amid a series of food and drug safety scandals, Xinhua news agency said.
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The governor of Paktia Province is the highest-ranking official to be killed since the Taliban began a campaign of suicide bombings last year.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 31 -- A former police officer was sentenced to death and nine other men, including a senior civil servant, were given long prison sentences Thursday for the murders of a leading opposition politician in Kazakhstan and two of his employees.
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China has executed a former state banker for embezzlement and accepting bribes, state media said on Wednesday, days after a senior Communist Party official was put to death for blowing up his mistress with a car bomb.
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China should reduce the number of death sentences it carries out, but the world's leading executioner of prisoners cannot afford to do away with capital punishment altogether, the country's top legal bodies said.
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An official is sacked and 100 people are investigated over the killing of a man in central China, state media says.
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China has punished 198 people for criminal violations and another 196 for breaking political disciplines in response to last year's fatal coal mining accidents. There were 476 lives lost in Chinese coal mining accidents in 2006 alone.
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A corrupt senior Chinese official was denounced by his 11 mistresses after some of their husbands were sentenced to death for graft, state media said on Friday.
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A Chinese man is sentenced to death and another to life in prison, for murdering a Japanese family in 2003.
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BEIJING -- China has ordered judges to use the death penalty more sparingly by showing leniency for murderers who cooperate with authorities and white-collar criminals who help recoup their ill-gotten gains, the government said Friday.
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China sentenced the former head of its food and drugs agency to death for corruption on Tuesday in a surprise judgment as the government sought to contain a wave of scandals over health safety.
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Dozens are to be punished over workplace deaths in China, as claims persist 10 Olympic workers died.
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Former Indian cabinet minister Shibu Soren is given a life term for murdering his aide.
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A Chinese business executive was sentenced to death for swindling $385 million from investors in a bogus ant-breeding scheme, a court official said Thursday.
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China will expand the use of lethal  injections to replace execution by gunshot, state media said on  Thursday of a country which kills more convicts than anywhere  else.
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An Afghan court has sentenced to death three Afghans convicted of killing 11 Chinese road engineers in the northeastern province of Kunduz last June, a Supreme Court Judge said on Friday.