From the BBC World Service: A Vietnamese court sentenced a property developer to death following a $44 billion bank fraud convcition. Our weekly “Econ Extra Credit” newsletter is an unexpected ...

HANOI, Vietnam — The unusually harsh death sentence given to a real estate tycoon in Vietnam was a pivotal moment in the decadelong “Blazing Furnace” anti-corruption campaign as the ...

The death sentence is an unusually severe punishment in such a case, although the country is a leading executioner globally, according to Amnesty International. Lan and the others were arrested as ...

A court in Vietnam on Thursday ordered the death penalty for a real estate tycoon found guilty in a financial fraud case totalling more than $12 billion US. Vietnamese state media called it the ...

Any sentence, any demand of cease-fire without release of hostages is a death sentence to them," Orna Neutra, said during an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union." "As far as what’s going on ...

Polly Klaas’ killer wants to overturn his death sentence in the notorious 1993 case — and her father is furious. Richard Allen Davis was sentenced to death for abducting and then murdering 12 ...

Austin Furr, 22, of Glenpool, was serving a five-year sentence at the McAlester prison when he was charged in state court for the death of his cellmate ... Friday morning by U.S. District Judge Ronald ...

Ho Chi Minh City — A top Vietnamese property tycoon was sentenced to death on Thursday in one of the biggest corruption cases in history, with an estimated $27 billion in damages. A panel of ...

SAN JOSE — Building on a 2020 pledge to stop pursuing the death penalty, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen is now seeking to remove all condemned South Bay prisoners from ...

The family of Ronald Goldman, the 25-year-old waiter and friend of Nicole Brown Simpson who was killed outside her home in 1994, responded to the death of O.J. Simpson. “This is just a reminder ...

Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan's death sentence is a pivotal moment in Vietnam’s anti-corruption drive HANOI, Vietnam -- The unusually harsh death sentence given to a real estate tycoon in ...

Austin Furr, 22, of Glenpool, was serving a five-year sentence at the McAlester prison when he was charged in state court for the death of his ... U.S. District Judge Ronald A.