Woman, 70, given life for 'honour killing'
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Â· Victim murdered in India and body thrown in river Â· Mother-in-law ordered to serve minimum 20 years
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A 70-year-old French bus driver is jailed for life for murdering seven young women in the 1970s.
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The ex-wife of a Marine was sentenced Monday to nearly 11 years in prison for a bungled plot with her lover to kill him to collect life insurance money.
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A nurse is charged with murdering three elderly female patients at a West Yorkshire hospital.
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MOSCOW, June 21 -- The European Court of Human Rights found Thursday that a Chechen woman who had appealed to the court and was subsequently  slain in her home along with three members of her family was "extra-judicially executed by State agents," according to the judgment.
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A 28-year-old woman is found guilty of manslaughter after a 17-month-old boy died in her care.
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China has awarded exactly 66,593.36 yuan (4,709 pounds) compensation to a woman who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her ex-husband and jailed for over two years, local media reported on Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Margaret Hassan spent a large part of her 59 years helping needy Iraqis. On Tuesday, her friends and family said they believed her captors had executed her, unjustly ending her life in the land she had adopted as her home.
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The sister of husband killer Jacqueline Crymble says her sibling should be given the death penalty.
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A court sentenced an Iraqi woman to death Thursday for her role in an al-Qaida-led triple hotel bombing that killed 60 people in Jordan's worst terror attack ever.
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A woman who suffered "years of fearsome physical abuse" is cleared of murdering her long-term partner.
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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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Three men were jailed Friday in Britain over a &quot;barbaric&quot; honour killing ordered by the family of a 20-year-old Kurdish woman after she had an affair with a man they deemed unsuitable.
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A woman accused of luring an elderly acquaintance to her home, shooting her to death, stealing her money and hiding the corpse was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.
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A woman convicted of murder and given a life sentence in the stabbing death of a teenage rival lost a new bid for freedom Tuesday in her long-running appeals battle.
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An 81-year-old woman faces a jail sentence after being found guilty of harassment and breaching her Asbo.
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Teams of prosecutors are to be deployed in the UK's honour killing 'hotspots' following the murder of a Kurdish woman by her family.