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The prosecution in Malabo demanded death sentences and jail terms exceeding a century on Thursday for alleged putschists accused of plotting against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea.
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Iraq's leaders grappled Thursday over the death sentences for three former Saddam Hussein regime heavyweights Â including the notorious enforcer known as "Chemical Ali" Â amid warnings the hangings could enflame sectarian violence and derail efforts at reconciliation.
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Iraqi prosecutors asked a judge on   Monday to sentence Saddam Hussein to death for his role in the   killings of 148 villagers after a 1982 assassination attempt in   the village of Dujail.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's chief prosecutor asked a court on Wednesday to sentence a group of French aid workers to forced labor for between seven and 11 years for trying to kidnap 103 children from the African country.
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Stop executions for a while and perhaps they can be stopped forever. That calculation has been part of the strategy of capital punishment opponents for decades.
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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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Six GuantÃ¡namo detainees accused of murder and war crimes could face death penalty if convicted
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An appeal case against a life sentence handed to Ethiopia&#39;s former dictator Mengistu Haile Marian opened here Tuesday with prosecutors seeking a harsher sentence.
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Polish President Lech Kaczynski says EU member states should reintroduce the death penalty.
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Indonesia has sentenced four more Australians to death by firing squad for drug smuggling in Bali, a ruling that sparked an immediate call for clemency from officials in Canberra.
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A BRITON who spent 18 years facing the death sentence in Pakistan for a murder he says he did not commit told today of the horror of hearing the sounds of fellow prisoners being executed just metres away.Comment
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War crimes prosecutors demand life in prison for a former Bosnian Serb politician accused of genocide.
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Equatorial Guinea has told a court he and his comrades had been chained like animals and tortured into confessing. and hand-cuffs to plead their innocence on Thursday.
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Chad's chief prosecutor asked a court  on Wednesday to sentence a group of French aid workers to  forced labor for between seven and 11 years for trying to  kidnap 103 children from the African country.
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MALABO : The prosecutor in the case of South African alleged mercenary leader Nick du Toit, who has admitted a limited role in a coup bid in Equatorial Guinea, called for him to be sentenced to death.
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WHERE: Saudi Arabia, where beheading is the punishment for murder, rape, drug trafficking and armed robbery. Human Rights groups say the number of executions has risen sharply and is already above 100 this year.
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Three militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings say they want to be beheaded and not face a firing squad.