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​ Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionJohn Kasich has granted clemency to a killer sentenced to die A US governor has spared a convicted killer sentenced to die after a juror said that his childhood abuse had not been properly detailed at trial. Ohio Governor John Kasich commuted Raymond Tibbetts’ sentence to life in jail due to “fundamental… Continue reading Ohio death row inmate spared after childhood abuse revelations

​ A 24-year-old Kenyan woman has been sentenced to death by hanging for killing her boyfriend. Ruth Kamande was 21 when she was charged with murder for stabbing her 24-year-old boyfriend Farid Mohammed to death. Since her arrest in 2015, she has been held in Lang’ata women’s jail in Nairobi, where she won a prisoners’ … Continue reading Death sentence for ‘prison beauty queen’

​ Share this with Twitter   Share Image copyrightEPAImage captionA suicide bombing earlier this month killed more than a dozen people in the Afghan city of Jalalabad The number of civilians killed in the long-running war in Afghanistan reached a record high in the first six months of this year, the UN says. Some 1,692 … Continue reading Afghanistan conflict: Civilian deaths hit record high, says UN