Court sentences "Chemical Ali" to hang
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Saddam Hussein's cousin, widely known as "Chemical Ali", was sentenced on Sunday to hang for masterminding a genocidal military campaign that used poison gas against Iraq's Kurds in the 1980s.
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Majid is accused of having ordered 1988 gassing of the Kurds in Halabja that killed some 5,000 people. BAGHDAD - Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein nicknamed &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; for the gassing of
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BAGHDAD -- Three senior aides to Saddam Hussein were found guilty yesterday of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal and sentenced to death by hanging for their roles in the slaughter of as many as 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s.
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SAN'A, Yemen - A Yemeni judge sentenced two men to death and four others to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years Wednesday for orchestrating the 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, an attack blamed on Osama bin Laden's terror network.    Saudi-born Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is in U.S...
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SANAA, YEMEN - A court in Yemen has sentenced one man to death and 14 others to prison terms of up to 10 years for a series of attacks on foreign targets.
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The Iraqi court trying Saddam Hussein's cousin &#151; known as "Chemical Ali" &#151; and other former regime officials for their roles in a 1980s military campaign against the Kurds said Sunday it would issue a verdict in two weeks.
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SAN&#39;A, Yemen Sept. 29, 2004 - A Yemeni judge sentenced two men to death and four others to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years Wednesday for orchestrating the 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, an
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A federal appeals court issued a stay of execution Monday for a convicted killer who had stopped appealing his death sentence and was set to be die in the electric chair.
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ATMORE, Ala., Jan. 31 -- A murderer who would have become the nation's first executed inmate in months won a reprieve Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
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Internet Radio has been sentenced to death. \
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An Afghan court sentenced a journalism student to death for blasphemy for distributing an article from the Internet that was considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad.
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LOS ANGELES : A US jury on Monday sentenced a salesman to death for murdering his pregnant wife and their unborn child, climaxing a soap-operatic case that gripped America for two years.
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A Beirut court sentenced one Lebanese man to life in prison and another for 12 years on Tuesday for their roles in a failed attempt to detonate bombs on two trains in Germany in 2006, judicial sources said.
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TEHRAN -- Iran executed a defendant by hanging after a court convicted him of a bombing last week that killed 11 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Nasrollah Shanbe Zehi was executed at the site of the attack in Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran, the report said. The sentence was ...
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Chinese court upholds death sentence against businessman accused of defrauding investors in would-be ant-breeding scheme
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - An Alabama death row inmate received a last-minute stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, keeping in place an unofficial U.S. moratorium on executions that has lasted more than four months.
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A court Tuesday sentenced a leader of an extremist group known as the Mad Crowd to 3 1/2 years in prison for hate crime attacks on foreigners, the judge said.