Court spares woman death by stoning
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An Islamic court in northern Nigeria on Wednesday quashed a death-by-stoning sentence against a pregnant 18-year-old girl who had been condemned for adultery.
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A court in Denmark was expected Wednesday to sentence nine people convicted of murder or accessory to murder in the killing of a 19-year-old woman gunned down by her older brother two days after her wedding because her Pakistani family disapproved of her choice of husband.
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The case offered a counterpoint to a broader discussion concerning Muslim women wearing the full-face veil.
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Governor Rick Perry granted a reprieve for a woman convicted of murdering her husband and two children. Frances Newton was scheduled to be executed last night for those killings.
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Yvonne Roberts used to take comfort in knowing that the killer of her 3-year-old son was behind bars. That was before two recent state Supreme Court decisions let him out &#151; four decades early.
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A divided appeals court Wednesday overturned the conviction and death sentence of a man condemned for killing and beheading his common-law wife's three children.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Dec 28, 2004 - A woman accused of killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb made her initial appearance Tuesday before a federal judge in Missouri.
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Grieving mother tells court how holiday to save marriage ended in tragedy
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A mother has her conviction for murdering her four-month-old son 10 years ago quashed during a retrial.
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A woman who died after being given an epidural in her arm was unlawfully killed, an inquest jury rules.
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The Kansas woman accused of strangling a pregnant woman and cutting the eight-month fetus from her womb appeared Tuesday before a federal magistrate judge who appointed two attorneys to defend her.
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A judge ruled Wednesday that a woman who killed her minister-husband with a shotgun can begin supervised visits with her three young daughters, but did not decide whether she can have custody of them.
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An Islamic appeals court in northern Nigeria threw out a sentence ordering a 25-year-old mother be stoned to death for adultery.
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The woman accused of strangling a pregnant mother, removing her unborn child from her womb, and passing the infant off as her own child, made her first appearance in a Kansas court on Monday.
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In a unanimous ruling, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law quickly passed to keep a brain-damaged woman on a feeding tube despite her husband&#39;s opposition.
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A court in northern Nigeria has sentenced two women to death by stoning for allegedly committing adultery, and both will soon appeal the sentences, a human rights group said Friday.
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The Florida Supreme Court threw out a state law Thursday that saved the life of a Tampa woman who has been in a permanent vegetative state for 14 years.