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RSSTEHRAN, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) — The Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani who is charged with extramarital affairs, and her son said that they would sue the two German nationals for the illegal interview attempts.
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Wrongful executions have been happening for hundreds of years, but until the advent of DNA evidence and improved forensics technology, these individuals have remained...
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Mexican officials have identified 13 people killed Sunday night in a Tijuana drug rehabilitation center, the state-run news agency said Monday.
Four heavily armed men...
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Police recovered the mutilated body of the acting mayor of a small town in western Mexico on Monday — the fifth Mexican mayor murdered in less than six weeks and the...
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It used to be that working as top cop was one of the most dangerous jobs in Mexico when it comes to drug-trafficking targets. These days, however, it seems that mayors...
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One of two known survivors of a drug gang’s massacre in northern Mexico of 72 undocumented Central and South American migrants said in an interview broadcast...
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What most thought to be a hoax after reading a late night, brief, photo-less announcement in Primera Hora News, has turned out to be true. The question of “Tubi...
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The horrifying massacre of 72 Central and South American immigrants by the hands of Zetas shocked the world. Preliminary investigations, based on testimony by the sole...
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Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan stoned a young couple to death for adultery, which a rights group said was the first confirmed use of the punishment here...
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Mexicans will go to the polls in fourteen states this weekend after mounting drug-related violence made this campaign the bloodiest since 1994, posing a threat to the...
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The military had said the two children were killed at Easter after their van was caught in cross-fire between troops and drug gang gunmen. But the human rights official...
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In 2009 alone, 10,000 children were orphaned due to the Mexican drug war in the U.S border city of Ciudad Juárez. The city has the distinction of being the most...
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A Mexico drug war shootout killed more than a dozen people Tuesday in the tourist town of Taxco, just days after police found a mass grave there with 55 bodies.
made popular Jun 18 2010
Mexico’s newest drug cartel, and certainly the most bizarre, is La Familia Michoacana, a violent but Christian fundamentalist narco-gang based in the torrid...
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Elementary and middle school classes in the Mexican state of Nayarit will end Friday, three weeks early, due to concerns over safety, the governor announced.
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Mexican drug cartels are becoming more skillful at ambushing and trapping police in commando-style raids, officials say.
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Can anyone say the War on Drugs is working? Is it reasonable to think drug trafficking can be terminated while demand runs endlessly? Is it even possible supply and...
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A commando of at least 15 men in seven trucks closed of streets and opened fire on a group of teens gathered to celebrate a birthday and win in a local football game....
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A plastic bag containing a human face and scalp hand stitched onto a soccer ball was discovered near the Los Mochis, Sinaloa City Hall.
In similar findings, the...
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China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang...
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Lately I’ve been doing alot of thinking, pondering actually. I know where I come from, I know our history. I know about the Aztecs, Hernan Cortez, and the Spanish...
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The gruesome botching of an execution in Ohio on Tuesday, when technicians tried but failed to find a vein in a Death Row inmate through which to administer the...
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Out from the hearts of nature rolled. The burdens of the bible old. American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882]
The execution in North Korea in full public view,...
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This is criminal justice, Yemen style. A man accused of raping and murdering an 11-year-old boy is paraded through his home town before being shot dead by an...
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A man executed by gunshots to the back of the head and found face down at the bottom of an irrigation canal in Ciudad Juarez, has been identified as U.S. Marshal deputy...
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It is a tragedy when any person, be it man, woman, or child dies, especially in a foreign country, but we’re not here to talk about just any man, woman, or child...
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“On 25 February 2008, the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Farzad Kamangar to death on charges of “endangering national security” and...
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I write this post with a heavy heart. I have been angry and at times distraught over the violence and death in my country. I have shared with you my sadness, dismay,...
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Corruption is rife and Mexico’s president is finding it tough to fulfil his vow to tackle drug gangs - but while he waits, the bodies continue mounting up.
made popular Oct 6 2008
The Mexican attorney general’s office, or PGR, has criteria for identifying homicides as “executions” linked to organized crime.
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It is the first time in more than 50 years that an American president has authorised a death sentence for a member of the armed forces.
Private Ronald Gray was...
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A killer who argued Virginia’s procedures for lethal injection were unconstitutional was executed Thursday after a federal appeals court upheld the primary method...
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Iran executed 29 people convicted in cases of murder, armed robbery, drug trafficking and other crimes, national television said Sunday.
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Indonesia has executed a man for killing 42 women and girls in a series of ritual slayings.An Attorney General Office spokesman said 57-year-old Ahmad Suradji was...
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A beautiful red dress, worn by Nazanin Boniadi at the Emmy awards, is auctioning off right this moment on Ebay.Take a look
The stunning, raven haired co-star of the...
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# The US Supreme Court upheld the three-drug lethal injection method clearing the way for an unofficial moratorium on executions to be lifted.
# In the three-drug...
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China with a booming economy may have been inching towards becoming the 21st century scientific and economic superpower, but its rigid set of laws and continuous...
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The Iranian government airing the hanging of a man charged with killing revolutionary guards a week earlier on state television, smacks of actions usually adopted by...
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Saddam Hussein’s execution comes at the end of a difficult year for the Iraqi people and for US troops. Although the news of Saddam Hussein’s execution was...
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Becky Washa, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, cries as she holds a photo of her sister Holly Washa, Thursday, March 12, 2009, outside the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Wash. The state Supreme Court stayed the execution of Cal Coburn Brown,...
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