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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More than 150 prisoners escaped from a state penitentiary in Cancun early Friday after hundreds of inmates overpowered guards with knives and bats. Police quickly recaptured about half the men.
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Ten alleged gang members are given lengthy jail sentences for the murders of 12 women in a city in northern Mexico.
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Six guards were found murdered outside a high security prison on Mexico's border with Texas on Thursday in the latest bloody episode in weeks of prison violence being blamed on powerful drug gangs.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a former drug   dealer on Thursday for the 1997 murders of a 41-year-old woman   and her 15-year-old son at their home near the south Texas town   of Refugio.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Six guards were found  murdered outside a high-security prison on Mexico's border with  Texas on Thursday, in the latest bloody episode in weeks of  prison violence being blamed on powerful drug gangs.
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A man who killed eight children during a rampage through a Japanese school is executed by hanging.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Six guards were found  murdered outside a high security prison on Mexico's border with  Texas on Thursday in the latest bloody episode in weeks of  prison violence being blamed on powerful drug gangs.
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Suspected drug dealers opened fire on a rival gang at a ranch in southwest Colombia, killing at least 10 people, including a toddler and a pregnant woman, authorities said.
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Six teen-age boys were shot to   death execution-style in northern Mexico, police said on   Saturday, bringing the death toll from a week of violence   linked to turf battles between drug gangs to at least 17.
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A rash of gangland-style killings in Cancun is being blamed on a battle between rival Cuban-American gangs over the lucrative trade in bringing Cubans into the U.S.
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At least eight people were killed in a Haitian slum during a gang feud set off by the weekend murder of a police officer, a U.N. official said.
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URUAPAN, Mexico  - An armed gang of suspected drug   traffickers wearing ski masks threw five human heads onto the   dance floor of a bar in western Mexico on Wednesday in an   apparent revenge killing, prosecutors said.
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Four Guatemalan policemen held over the murders of three Salvadorean politicians are shot dead in prison.
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The bodies of nine people, including three federal agents, were discovered at a pair of sites outside Cancun, a Mexican resort city that lies near a route used to smuggle cocaine from Colombia to America's streets.
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Six GuantÃ¡namo detainees accused of murder and war crimes could face death penalty if convicted
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Thirty heavily armed gunmen ambushed a van carrying one of Central America's top drug kingpins on Monday, freeing him in a brazen assault as he was en route to stand trial.