Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death in $12.5 billion fraud case

Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan, who was accused of embezzling around $12.4 billion, was sentenced to death for her involvement in ...

Japanese woman on death row for murder chokes to death on prison food

A woman on death row choked to death while eating a meal at the Hiroshima Detention House in Hiroshima, Japan. Miyuki Ueta, a 49-year-old fo...

Man sentenced to death for traffic stop murder of first Sikh deputy to wear turban on duty in Texas

Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal, 42, was fatally shot by Robert Solis, 50, during a routine traffic stop in Houston on Sept. 27, 2019. Dhaliwal ma...

Los Angeles DA Gascón seeks to overturn death sentence of man who murdered two Japanese students

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón petitioned to change the death sentence of Raymond Oscar Butler, the man who murdered tw...

Chinese man executed for setting ex-wife on fire during livestream

A man convicted of killing his ex-wife by setting her ablaze during a livestream was executed in China’s Sichuan province on Saturday. The...