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DR Congo president pardons coup plotters of American origin

China.dot.org 02 Apr 2025
... to death, according to official sources ... Thirty-seven alleged coup plotters were convicted and sentenced to death in September last year by a Kinshasa military court in a trial against the failed coup.
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Congo's leader commutes death sentences of 3 Americans convicted in failed coup plot

San Francisco Chronicle 02 Apr 2025
A presidential spokesperson said Wednesday that a presidential pardon commuted their death sentences to life imprisonment.
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Bergen County woman pleads guilty in death of her newborn child

northjersey.com 02 Apr 2025
Kimberly Aponte was 19 years old when she gave birth to a baby boy in the bathroom of her family's Hackensack apartment in August 2020.Aponte pleaded guilty to the charges stemming from the newborn's death and will be sentenced in July.
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Akron brothers were convicted of assault for Ethan Liming's death. Looking back at the case

Akron Beacon Journal 02 Apr 2025
Akron brothers convicted of assault charges in Ethan Liming’s death get maximum sentences – Oct ... on the pavement during the sentencing of the two young men who were convicted of assault in his death.
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Luigi Mangione could get death penalty under Trump rule; is it legal in NJ?

Daily Journal - Vineland 02 Apr 2025
... a death sentence under Trump’s second term ... 31, fewer than five federal inmates are on death row, after then President Joe Biden commuted 37 death sentences.Is the death penalty legal in New Jersey?.
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Bombshell update after a cop who Tasered a 95-year-old great-grandmother to death was spared jail ...

The Daily Mail 02 Apr 2025
The family of a 95-year-old grandmother who was Tasered to death by a police officer have applauded prosecutors' decision to appeal her killer's sentence ... When asked by Nine News if he believed White deserved a prison sentence, Michael said.
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Delaware bill named for late civil rights activist would expand prison early release process

Delaware Online 02 Apr 2025
An application known as the 4217 process is one of a few paths prisoners may take in an effort to have their prison sentence reduced based on their rehabilitation ... Lawmakers renew efforts to strip Delaware death penalty from constitution.
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Parents sentenced to probation in 2 separate cases after sons shot themselves with guns

Detroit Free Press 02 Apr 2025
Parents charged last year under Michigan's new firearms safe storage law were sentenced this week in separate cases in metro Detroit — one case in Macomb County, the other in Oakland County.
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Gulf War veteran convicted of killing girlfriend, her 3 kids scheduled for execution

WPXI 02 Apr 2025
Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for Hutchinson on Monday -- the fourth he has signed this year ... Governor DeSantis has signed a death warrant for Jeffrey Hutchinson, a Gulf War veteran ... Hutchinson has been on death row in Florida since Feb.
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'Tragedy for everybody:' Ethan Liming's death still impacts those involved 3 years later

Akron Beacon Journal 02 Apr 2025
Looking back at the death of Akron teen Ethan Liming. A new true crime TV show is examining the defense case of Deshawn Stafford, who was convicted of assault in the death of Akron teen Ethan Liming ... Police describe Ethan’s death as ‘brutal assault’.
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Florida Gulf War veteran set for execution for murders of girlfriend and her 3 kids

Tampa Bay Times 02 Apr 2025
A Gulf War Army veteran convicted of the shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her three children has been scheduled for execution in Florida, the fourth death warrant signed this year by Gov ... James Dennis Ford, 64, was put to death Feb.
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Prosecutors directed to seek death penalty against UnitedHealthcare killing suspect Luigi Mangione

Hong Kong Standard 02 Apr 2025
The Trump administration has signaled it will aggressively push for death sentences for certain crimes, accusing the Biden administration of going easy on violent criminals.
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Trump administration will seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione in UnitedHealthcare killing

The Oregonian 02 Apr 2025
He faces state murder charges, but New York does not have the death penalty ... In one of his final acts in office, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most federal death-row inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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The U.S. Wants to Execute Luigi Mangione

New York Magazine 02 Apr 2025
Merrick Garland, the attorney general under President Biden, declared a moratorium on the federal death penalty, and Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 current federal death-row inmates ... attorney general to once again seek the death penalty.
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Man convicted in 2015 slaying dies in Nevada prison

Las Vegas Review-Journal 02 Apr 2025
Cordova was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison on a second-degree murder charge following the stabbing death of a man in ...
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