Death sentence for student's slaying
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A jury in North Dakota's first death penalty case in nearly a century decided Friday a convicted sex offender should be executed for kidnapping and killing a college student after she left a shopping mall.
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A man convicted of murdering eight children in a frenzied knife attack at a primary school three years ago was hanged in Osaka yesterday, in Japan&#39;s first execution for a year.
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A Harvard graduate student was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to six to eight years in prison Thursday for stabbing a young man to death in a fight that heightened the generations-old tension between the Ivy Leaguers and working-class Cambridge.
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A teenager who stabbed and battered to death a 14-year-old boy is sentenced to life in jail.
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The Supreme Court has sentenced a man to death by hanging for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl after luring her to a sugarcane field in Uttar Pradesh nearly four years ago.
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In India, the prosecution has demanded death penalty for the main accused in the rape and murder of a Delhi student 10 years ago.
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A man involved in the murder of a father shot dead in front of his two children is jailed for life.
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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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A former Harvard graduate student was sentenced to two years in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for stabbing to death a teenager who made fun of him.
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Three teenagers are jailed for life for murdering a father-of-three outside his home.
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A father who ordered the killing of his daughter after finding out she had a boyfriend is jailed for life.
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A Japanese schoolgirl who killed her classmate is sent to a juvenile correctional facility.
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A former elementary school vice principal was sentenced to death Thursday for the brutal murders of his wife, three small children and mother-in-law.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A U.S. court granted a stay of execution to a convicted killer set to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday, the latest such move since the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to lethal injection.
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A teenager suspected in a shooting at a high school that injured two students Wednesday later confessed to killing his father and was charged with murder, authorities said.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to assess the morality and propriety of states&#39; executing murderers who killed at age 16 or 17 - the ultimate punishment carried out in few places outside the United States.
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The man who killed former Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh will serve his life sentence in prison, the Swedish Supreme Court has ruled.