The execution marks the sixth known public execution since the Taliban’s return to power, reigniting international outrage over the group’s use of capital punishment and corporal punishment, which ...

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The court ruled that the brutal killings, which stemmed from a property dispute, met the "rarest of rare" standard required ...

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Wellpath, the private company that provides health care in Ventura County jails and hundreds of other prisons and jails ...

Police in riot gears clamped down on protesters who went on a rampage blocking roads and setting vehicles on fire after the ...

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Incoming Los Angeles County district attorney Nathan Hochman campaigned on a hard middle approach, one of proportional and ...