Four South African men are sentenced to 18 years for stabbing and stoning to death a 19-year-old lesbian six years ago.

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SA lesbian killers get 18 years

Drug mules face more lenient sentences if they have been victims of exploitation, under new sentencing guidelines.

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Drugs mule sentences to be cut

Cuban dissident Wilmar Villar dies after 50-day hunger strike protesting against his sentence for taking part in a demonstration.

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Cuban hunger striker dies in jail

BEIJING – Chinese writer and activist Li Tie was sentenced to 10 years in prison for “inciting subversion,” his family members said Thursday. Li is the third high-profile dissident handed a lengthy term in the last few weeks, part of a Communist Party crackdown ahead of a planned leadership change later this year. Read full article > >

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Another writer sentenced as China’s crackdown continues

Stewart O’Nan seems incapable of writing a false line. Whether describing the unimaginable ( losing one’s child ) or the mundane ( losing one’s appetite ), his modest sentences crystallize the lives of ordinary people. His previous novel , “ Emily, Alone ,” described the daily outings of an 80-year-old widow in Pittsburgh. Emily’s pulse beat stronger than her story, but with all the novel’s insight and charm, that lack of action didn’t matter. O’Nan is a author you learn to trust, no matter what he’s writing about. Read full article > >

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SMOLENSK, Russia — As opposition leaders wait to see how Russian authorities intend to handle continuing political protests in Moscow, a criminal case here, 250 miles to the west, suggests that tough measures are part of the equation. Read full article > >

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Far from Moscow, a harsh sentence and political overtones

Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced to death an American of Iranian descent, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, saying he spied for the C.I.A., the Fars news agency reported.

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Iran Imposes Death Sentence on U.S. Man Accused of Spying

A Ballymena man is given a life sentence for raping a 75 year-old woman who begged him for mercy.

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Pensioner rapist given life term

An Iranian court sentences to death Amir Mirzai Hekmati, an American of Iranian descent, for spying for the CIA.

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Iran sentences ‘CIA spy’ to death

In a preliminary ruling, Iran’s revolutionary courts convicted American Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, 28, of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, the Fars news agency reported Monday. The report said Hekmati was also convicted of trying to accuse Iran of involvement in terrorism. Hekmati allegedly confessed on state television that he had been trained in the U.S. “and planned to imply that Iran was involved in terrorist activities in foreign countries” after returning to the U.S., AP reported. Read full article > >

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Gary Rolan Welch was put sentenced to death for murder.

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Oklahoma Has First Execution

CAIRO — The prosecution in the historic trial of former president Hosni Mubarak demanded Thursday that he be executed for ordering the killing of pro-democracy protesters during the revolt that ultimately forced his ouster. The five-person prosecution team also called for the same sentence — death by hanging — for his security chief and six top police commanders. Read full article > >

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Hosni Mubarak should be executed, Egyptian prosecutors say

A Lincolnshire woman who admitted murdering her fiance is given a life sentence with a minimum term of 23 years.

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Life sentence for fiance murderer

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s government announced Monday that it is reducing the sentences of many prisoners in a clemency that fell short of the general amnesty many people were expecting. State television and radio said President Thein Sein signed a clemency order to mark the country’s 64th anniversary of independence. Read full article > >

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Myanmar’s government reduces sentences for many prisoners

MANCHESTER, N.H. No matter what happens in Iowa, Mitt Romney has a safety net in New Hampshire. And that could rank as the year’s most perilous sentence. Why shouldn’t Romney be surprised in the state that temporarily derailed Barack Obama’s supposedly rapid march toward nomination four years ago? Hillary Clinton humbled many a pundit here in 2008, reason enough to challenge the rapidly jelling conventional wisdom about the Republican presidential campaign. Read full article > >

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New Hampshire looks like Romney’s granite fortress