A panel of prosecutors unanimously indicted an officer of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) for the death of a co-worker whose remains were found in a car trunk after his confession.
Japan has hanged two inmates convicted of murder, its fourth and fifth executions this year.
US prosecutors rebuffed Thursday a reported offer by Colorado theater massacre suspect James Holmes to plead guilty in exchange for escaping the death penalty, legal documents showed.
Investigators are looking at a possible gang tie in the slaying of a toddler in his stroller and said Thursday that a bullet used in the shooting has been recovered.
A defense lawyer says an Indian court has ruled that the media should be allowed to cover the trial of four men accused in the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman on a New Delhi bus in December.
Former Argentine president Carlos Menem was convicted on Friday of orchestrating arms smuggling while in office.
The Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the American military’s “bloodlust” and disregard for human life in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire was executed in Texas on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused his final appeal.
A woman accused of witchcraft has been burned alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in Papua New Guinea town in one of the highest profile sorcery-rated murders in this South Pacific island nation, police said Friday.
Five men accused of raping a university student for hours on a bus as it drove through India’s capital were charged with murder, rape and other crimes that could bring them the death penalty.
A police officer is being investigated for allegedly killing a man in Pasay City before dawn Friday, a police official said.
President Benigno Aquino III said here Friday that the government had a strong case of plunder against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
A suspected Abu Sayyaf member, who was the subject of at least three warrants for kidnapping and other charges, was arrested in Isabela City in Basilan around 9:40 a.m. on Saturday, the police said.
