China sentences man to death in ant case
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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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ST. PETERSBURG, Florida  - An Ecuadorean man was sentenced to death on Tuesday for the murders of four people at a central Florida factory nearly a decade ago.
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A millionaire businessman is given the death penalty in China for raping more than 20 young girls.
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ISLAMABAD, Dec 25 (SANA): An army soldier has been sentenced to death and another given 10 years imprisonment after they were convicted in an attempt to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf, an army spokesman said on Saturday.
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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.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan judges sentenced a man to death Saturday over the slaying of three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague, who were pulled from their cars, robbed and shot as they rushed to cover the collapse of the Taliban.
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BEIJING -- China's former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday in an unusually harsh punishment for taking bribes to approve substandard medicines, including an antibiotic blamed for at least 10 deaths.
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An Iranian man is sentenced to death for his role in the serial killings of 17 children and three adults.
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China has secretly executed a man who protested against the controversial Pubugou dam project, his lawyer says.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio  - The state of Ohio on Thursday put to death a man who killed his prison cellmate, after executioners worked for more than an hour to find the right veins in which to inject lethal chemicals.
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The unusually harsh sentence comes at a time of concerns for the quality and safety of Chinaâs food and drug system.
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The assisted-suicide enthusiast, who says he helped some 130 people kill themselves, is in prison for the 1998 murder of Thomas Youk, who suffered from Lou Gehrig&#39;s disease.
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A man is jailed for life after admitting murdering a young Chinese woman in Belfast in June 2004.
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An Indian soldier is sentenced to death for killing his superior in Indian-administered Kashmir last year.
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A 22-year-old man in central China has died of bird flu, the country's ministry of health confirmed Monday, according to state news agency Xinhua.
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A Beijing court sentenced the former head of China&#39;s food and drug administration to death Tuesday on corruption charges for accepting bribes in return for granting approvals to hundreds of medicines.
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Seven people - including a mine owner - are jailed for the fatal beating of a journalist at a coal mine in China.