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  US: Man executed in Oklahoma for double murder, including of Indian national, in 2002

  World | April 05, 2024 16:49 IST

  Michael Dewayne Smith was 19 when he killed Indian national Sharath Pullaru, 24, and Janet Moore, 40, in separate incidents on February 22, 2002. Notably, Oklahoma resumed death penalties in 2021 after two botched executions prompted a seven-year pause.

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  Boston marathon bomber sentenced to death by lethal injection

  World | May 16, 2015 12:41 IST

  Boston: A jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death Friday for the Boston Marathon bombing, sweeping aside pleas that he was just a "kid" who fell under the influence of his fanatical older brother.Tsarnaev, 21, stood

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  Female prisoner executed in Texas jail through lethal injection

  World | February 06, 2014 13:34 IST

  Huntsville, Texas: A woman convicted of torturing and killing a mentally impaired man she lured to Texas with the promise of marriage was put to death Wednesday evening in a rare execution of a female