China Sentences Man to Death in Ant Case
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BEIJING - 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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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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Programmer who unleashed the Panda worm almost a year ago in China is sentenced.
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A 31-year-old man is given life in jail for stabbing to death the mother of his child during an argument.
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China sentenced a former top drug safety official to death and disclosed an investigation into cellphone batteries after one reportedly exploded, killing a man.
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A California jury sentenced Scott Peterson today to death by injection for murdering his pregnant wife two years ago.
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An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali" and two other former regime officials to death by hanging for their roles in a 1980s scorched-earth campaign that led to the deaths of 180,000 Kurds.
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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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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Hefei, 24 September: A Chinese local court has sentenced a former county party chief from the eastern province of Anhui to life imprisonment for taking bribes.
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A woman convicted in the largest case  of drug trafficking in China's capital in more than 50 years  was executed on Tuesday, Chinanews.com news Web site reported.
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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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Four young men in Brazil get maximum jail sentences after they dragged a six-year-old boy to his death behind a car they had stolen.
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Two death sentences for corrupt senior officials were announced in China on Tuesday as President Hu Jintao lamented the difficulty of fighting graft, state press said.
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An Afghan court sentenced a man to death Saturday for the 2001 killing 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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A male nurse who admitted killing 27 elderly patients has been sentenced to life in prison by a Swiss court.
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An Iraq court on Sunday sentenced three firmer aides to Saddam Hussein, inlcuding the man known as "Chemical Ali" to death by hanging for their role in a 1980s genocide campaign that that killed up to 100,000 Kurds.
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A man who shot his wife to death because she wanted to leave him was executed Wednesday, the first Ohio inmate put to death using new injection guidelines adopted because the last execution was plagued with problems.