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6 get death for masterminding riot at Indonesian detention center

Kyodo News
Posted at Apr 22 01:55 PM

An Indonesian court has sentenced 6 people to death for masterminding a riot inside a detention center at the headquarters of an elite Indonesian police unit near Jakarta in 2018, killing 5 police officers. Read more »

Saudi scraps death sentences over Khashoggi murder, jails 8

Anuj Chopra, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 08 01:18 PM

A Saudi court on Monday overturned five death sentences over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder, in a final ruling that was condemned by his fiancee and slammed by a UN expert as a "parody of justice".   Read more »

China sentences Canadian to death over drug charge

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 06 05:19 PM

A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian national to death on Thursday in a ruling that could further inflame tensions between China and Canada. Read more »

Boston marathon bomber’s death sentence thrown out by court

Ellen Barry, The New York Times
Posted at Aug 01 01:37 PM

BOSTON — A federal appeals court Friday overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, and ordered a new penalty-phase trial.   Read more »

Lagman: Reviving death penalty will affect PH negotiations for OFWs on death row

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 01 02:48 AM

If the Philippines revives the death penalty, the country will lose its "moral ascendancy" in negotiations involving Filipinos facing capital punishment overseas. Read more »

Iran says to execute man convicted of spying on Soleimani for CIA

Parisa Hafezi, Reuters
Posted at Jun 09 08:48 PM

On Jan. 3, a US drone strike in Iraq killed Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force. Washington blamed Soleimani for masterminding attacks by Iran-aligned militias on US forces in the region. Read more »

Man sentenced to death in Singapore via Zoom call

Reuters
Posted at May 20 01:51 PM

A man has been sentenced to death in Singapore via a Zoom video-call for his role in a drug deal, the city-state's first case where capital punishment has been delivered remotely. Read more »

Chinese man sentenced to death for virus checkpoint killing

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 02 02:27 PM

A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death for fatally stabbing 2 officials at a checkpoint set up to control the spread of the new coronavirus outbreak.  Read more »

Death penalty usage declined in US in 2019: group

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 18 03:51 AM

This year's 22 executions were the second-lowest since 1991, while California halted executions and New Hampshire abolished the punishment completely. Read more »

Pakistan court sentences former military ruler Musharraf to death for treason

Asif Shahzad, Reuters
Posted at Dec 17 05:22 PM

Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup and later ruled as president, is not in Pakistan and was not available for comment on the sentence, handed down by an anti-terrorism court hearing the high treason case. Read more »

Australian gran wins Malaysia death sentence appeal

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 26 01:23 PM

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia - An Australian grandmother who claimed she was tricked into carrying drugs into Malaysia after falling for an online romance scam Tuesday won her final appeal against the death penalty and will be freed. Read more »

Iran sentences man to death for spying for the CIA

Reuters
Posted at Oct 01 05:37 PM

Iranian courts have sentenced one person to death for spying for the CIA and jailed two others for 10 years for the same crime, as well as imprisoning a fourth person for 10 years for spying for Britain, the judiciary said on Tuesday. Read more »

US man sentenced to death for killing his 5 children

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 14 06:20 AM

WASHINGTON, United States - An American convicted of killing his 5 small children was sentenced to death Thursday, even after his ex-wife asked jurors to spare his life because the kids loved him.   Read more »

Saudi prosecutor seeks death sentences as Khashoggi murder trial opens

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 03 07:22 PM

Khashoggi, a contributor to the Washington Post, was murdered on October 2 in what Riyadh called a "rogue" operation. Read more »

Death sentence for raped teen in Sudan named world's worst case for women's rights

Isabelle Gerretsen, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Dec 05 05:30 AM

LONDON - The death sentence for a 19-year-old girl in Sudan who murdered her husband after he tried to rape her was named on Tuesday as the world's worst court ruling for women's rights this year. Read more »