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Communist Vietnam's secret death penalty conveyor belt: How country trails only China and Iran for 'astonishing' number of executions

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Prisoners are dragged from their cells at 4am without warning to be given a lethal injection Vietnam's use of the death penalty has been thrust into the spotlight after a real estate tycoon was on Thursday sentenced to be executed in one of the biggest corruption cases in the country's history. Truong My Lan, a businesswoman who chaired a sprawling company that developed luxury apartments, hotels, offices and shopping malls, was arrested in 2022.

Boston Marathon Bombing: Tsarnaev lawyers granted more time for evidence challenges

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A federal judge granted a request Wednesday from defense attorneys for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to have more time to prepare challenges to evidence they expect to be brought against him.

US District Court Judge George A. O'Toole Jr., who is presiding over the Tsarnaev case, granted the extension from April 23 to May 7.

In a motion filed Tuesday in US District Court in Boston, the defense lawyers said they need more time to decide what evidence they will seek to suppress, or prevent prosecutors from presenting, at the trial, where Tsarnaev faces the possibility of the death penalty.

Both the prosecution and the defense, the motion said, agreed to allow the time for filing of motions to suppress statements to be extended to April 23.

Both sides also agreed that the time for filing of motions to suppress evidence collected during searches should be extended to May 7.

Tsarnaev, 20, faces 30 federal counts in his alleged role in the April 15, 2013, bombings, which killed 3 people and injured more than 260. Many of the injured lost limbs in the attacks and were scarred by shrapnel.

Tsarnaev and his late brother, Tamerlan, are also accused of killing an MIT police officer.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to all charges and is being held without bail.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty; a jury will decide whether to impose that sentence, if Tsarnaev is convicted.

Source: Boston Globe, April 10, 2014
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