Is this about religion or control?"An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam.
The three-judge panel sentenced Sayad Parwez Kambaksh to...
Texas Governor Rick Perry has commuted the death sentence of Kenneth Foster to life in prison. This is the first time Governor Perry has voluntarily commuted the sentence of a condemned inmate on death row....
"Eighteen men have been remanded in prison following their arrest for alleged sodomy in northern Nigeria, the state-owned news agency, Nan, reports.
The men were arrested in a hotel in north-eastern Bauchi State, which is governed by the Islamic Sharia law.
The Sharia...
Christopher Newton was executed almost two hours after the scheduled time of his execution. He had received the death sentence for killing his prison cellmate, choking and beating him after an argument over...
Legal wrangling continues as the execution date looms for Philip Workman. The condemned was convicted in 1981 of murdering a police officer during a restaurant robbery, and his executino date had been shifted several times."Lawyers for convicted cop killer Philip Workman and...
I hope that to some this death sentence does not make a hero out of the former Iraqi leader. Outside of Iraq, where some people might not have access to the full story. They might see him as someone who stood...
Reported 12-29-06 7:08 PM PST United States Time -
This report was from FOX News via Al-Arabiya. The reporter stated that he had heard the report over his IFB.
People in Dearborn, Michigan are being shown...
A Libyan court has sentenced five Bulgarian nurses
and a Palestinian doctor to death for knowingly infecting hundreds of
Libyan children with HIV.
The medics have been in detention since 1999, during which time 52 of the 426 infected children have died of Aids.
The nurses...
"Reuters - An Indonesian court on
Tuesday sentenced two young Australian men to die by firing
squad for attempting to smuggle heroin from the resort island
of Bali, verdicts that could strain ties with Canberra."