BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court said Wednesday it had rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun. The defendant, a German […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Bidding to resume Louisiana executions after a 14-year pause, the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature gave final passage to a bill Thursday to add electrocution and the use of nitrogen gas as means of administering the death penalty. The legislation comes one day after the country’s most recent execution in Texas and […]
A court in Pakistan on Wednesday handed a 14-year prison sentence to former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife for stealing expensive gifts that were in state possession, his lawyer said. The conviction came a day after another court handed Khan and his former foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, a 10-year prison sentence for […]