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MURDER

WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 10, 2013
Online firearms loophole 'bigger than gun shows'
The marketplace for firearms on the Internet, where buyers are not required to undergo background checks, is so vast that advocates for stricter regulations now consider online sales a greater threat than the gun show loophole.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 8, 2013
Guam court grants rampage suspect second psychological evaluation
A court on Guam on Thursday said it will allow a psychologist to re-examine the man charged with killing three Japanese tourists and wounding 11 other people in a vehicular and knife rampage in February.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 27, 2013
Suspect in Yamaguchi murder-arson case is turned over to prosecutors
The police turn over to prosecutors the 63-year-old man suspected of murdering five people and torching two homes in a remote mountain community in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2013
Man, more teens nabbed in girl's killing
A 21-year-old man is arrested along with two male and three female teenagers in connection with the slaying of a 16-year-old girl, whose corpse was found on a mountain in Hiroshima Prefecture.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 17, 2013
Hiroshima teen's friends questioned over death
Police began questioning on a voluntary basis three friends of a 16-year-old girl arrested Sunday for allegedly dumping the body of a former classmate on a mountain in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, police sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 16, 2013
Girl held over death texted of her distress
A 16-year-old girl arrested Sunday for allegedly dumping the body of a former classmate in the mountains in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, contacted her friends before turning herself in, her friends claimed Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 16, 2013
Starkly different outcomes in Florida gun cases
Two Florida towns, 200 km apart. Two people firing weapons at unarmed aggressors, purportedly in self-defense.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 15, 2013
Bangladesh Islamist, 91, gets life for war crimes
A Bangladesh tribunal sentenced the former chief of the country's biggest Islamic party to spend the rest of his life in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the country's war of independence four decades ago.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Jul 15, 2013
Zimmerman verdict unlikely to end Martin saga
It's over. But it's not really done.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 15, 2013
Anger flows over Zimmerman acquittal
George Zimmerman's acquittal Saturday night on all charges in the killing of a black teenager, Trayvon Martin, sparked deep emotional reactions across the country Sunday, resurrecting an intense national debate about the role of race and racism in American life.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 14, 2013
Zimmerman acquitted of Martin killing
A Florida jury acquits George Zimmerman of second-degree murder and manslaughter in a case that both fascinated and appalled large segments of a spellbound America.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2013
Hiroshima teen admits slaying friend
A teenager is arrested in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, after confessing to killing her friend and abandoning her body on a nearby mountain.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 7, 2013
Race takes backseat at Zimmerman trial
Thousands streamed into Fort Mellon Park, hard against the south shore of Lake Monroe, on that night in March 2012. An unarmed African-American teenager in a "hoodie" sweatshirt had been killed the month before in this central Florida city, but the agitated crowd felt echoes of another era. "Trayvon...
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2013
Death penalty from lay judge trial overturned
The Tokyo High Court overturns a lower court decision in a lay judge trial that sentenced a 62-year-old man to death for murder, commuting the sentence to life in prison.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 17, 2013
After Newtown shooting, mourning parents enter into the lonely quiet
They had promised to try everything, so Mark Barden went down into the basement to begin another project in memory of Daniel. The families of Sandy Hook Elementary were collaborating on a Mother's Day card, which would be produced by a marketing firm and mailed to hundreds of politicians across the country....
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 11, 2013
Can brain scans explain crime?
University of Pennsylvania neuroscientist Adrian Raine, author of "The Anatomy of Violence," believes that advances in brain imagery are helping to explain the biological roots of crime. American Enterprise Institute scholar and psychiatrist Sally Satel, co-author of "Brainwashed," is wary of the seduction...
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 1, 2013
Iranian-American gets jail for Tehran-backed plot to kill Saudi envoy
An Iranian-American used car salesman from Texas who was at the center of a bizarre plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Manhattan to 25 years in prison.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 14, 2013
Accused stalker, double-slayer denies guilt
A 28-year-old man pleads not guilty in court to charges that he killed the mother and grandmother of a woman he allegedly roughed up and stalked in 2011.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 10, 2013
Hawke film exploits the gruesome myth of snuff
In "Sinister," the new horror movie starring Ethan Hawke, a man explores the attic of his new home and finds a box of old Super 8 film reels. After his family goes to bed, he pours himself a whiskey and watches them: At first it's normal home-video sort of stuff, a family goofing around in their backyard...
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 30, 2013
Okayama woman's murderer drops appeal; death penalty finalized
A 30-year-old man's death sentence for the 2011 murder of a woman in Okayama has been finalized after he dropped his appeal, a branch of the Hiroshima High Court said Friday.

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