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Contra Costa bluer than ever, county-based exit poll reveals
Danville :: VA :: USA | 6 months ago
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As evidence, Evans points to results of the Contra Costa Poll, a telephone survey his firm conducted of 600 county residents who voted in the Nov. 6 general election. Contra Costans voted, for example, more liberal than statewide results in nearly
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The execution of Ajmal Kasab and Indian authorities' cowardice
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 6 months ago
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India is a society large parts of which bays for the blood of religious minorities engaged in alleged terrorist activities but looks askance at what ought to be labelled crimes against humanity by Hindu fanatics. For those Indians who oppose the
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Topeka man faces capital murder charge
Topeka :: KS :: USA | 6 months ago
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A 21-year-old Topeka man faces a new capital murder charge in the death of an 18-year-old Topeka woman. Shawnee County Prosecutor Chad Taylor on Wednesday filed an amended criminal complaint against Dustin Leftwich, who's accused of using a vehicle
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1996 Delhi blast: 2 acquitted, one?s death penalty commuted
New Delhi :: India | 6 months ago
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New Delhi, November 22, 2012 PTI This April 22, 2010 photo shows 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast convicts Mohammed Ali Bhatt, Mirza Nissar Hussain and Mohammed Naushad being escorted by security personnel after they were sentenced by a Delhi court...Mittal
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Khurshid asks Pak to increase security at embassy
New Delhi :: India | 6 months ago
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India has asked Pakistan to increase security at its embassy, officials said on Thursday after the execution of Pakistani militant Mohammed Kasab who was hanged for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. India notified Pakistan on Tuesday of the
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Singapore defends death penalty...
Singapore :: Singapore | 6 months ago
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Singapore yesterday hit back at critics of its limited easing of the death penalty for drug trafficking, saying some rights campaigners give more importance to prisoners than their victims. Unfortunately, there has been little emphasis on the fact
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Increase in executions goes against the trend
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 6 months ago
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This week, India hanged Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks which killed 166 people. In recent days, Pakistan has executed Muhammad Hussain, a soldier convicted of murder, and Afghanistan executed eight people
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SC for 'fresh look' on criterion for awarding death penalty
Mumbai :: India | 6 months ago
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The Supreme Court has said its Constitution bench's landmark judgement of 1980 on criterion for imposing death penalty needs a "fresh look" as there has been "no uniformity" in following its principles on what constitutes "the rarest of rare" cases. "
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India nixes death penalty abolition, says it's used but rarely
Mumbai :: India | 6 months ago
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Two days before India hanged Ajmal Kasab, the lone remaining gunman convicted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, it opposed a UN draft resolution for abolishing the death penalty saying it was used only on the rarest of occasions. India and the US were
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No death penalty for man charged with killing BYU prof
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 6 months ago
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Martin Cameron Bond, 25, will go to trial in January no longer facing the possibility of death. Instead, if Bond is found guilty of killing Kay Mortensen during a robbery at his Utah County home, Bond will be sentenced to life without the possibility
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