Pakistan’s Top Court to Weigh Reinstating Death Sentence on Accused Killer of WSJ Reporter

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ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s top court Monday agreed to hear arguments that a death sentence should be reinstated on the British national accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl after a lower court overturned his conviction earlier this year. The Supreme Court ordered that Omar Sheikh continue to be detained for … Read more

Iran Executes Wrestler Trump Had Asked Authorities to Spare

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TEHRAN—Iran has executed a wrestler and alleged murderer whose life President Trump had asked the country’s leaders to spare, Iranian state TV reported. “The retaliation sentence against Navid Afkari, the killer of Hassan Turkman, was carried out this morning in Adelabad prison in Shiraz,” the chief justice of Fars province, Kazem Mousavi, said Saturday, according … Read more

Final Saudi Verdict Spares Khashoggi Killers From Execution

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—A Saudi court reduced the death sentences of five men convicted in the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi to 20-year prison terms and handed shorter sentences to three other nationals, in a case that drove a wedge between Saudi Arabia’s heir-apparent and the West. The public prosecutor declared the case closed nearly … Read more