Punishment News

8:13 PM EST
2/2/2012 French mapping firm wins $660,000 damage against GoogleA French mapping company claiming to have suffered business losses because of Google’s free online maps has won $660,000 in damages from the search engine giant.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Punishment, Economy, Business And Finance, Computing And Information Technology, Software, Science And Technology, IT/computer Sciences

3:05 PM EST
1/17/2012 Lindsay Lohan returns to court for progress reportLindsay Lohan returned to court Tuesday for her second probation progress report and received high marks for staying the course. Lohan is now halfway through her probation.

Source:AHN Topics:Human Interest, People, Celebrity, Crime, Law And Justice, Punishment

1:41 PM EST
1/13/2012 Joran van der Sloot sentenced to 28 years for Peru murderJoran van de Sloot was sentenced Friday to 28 years for the murder of a Peruvian woman. The 24-year-old Dutch national confessed Wednesday to the charges of "qualified murder" and simple robbery in the death of Stephany Flores in May 2010. He was the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, but was never charged.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Crime, Homicide, Punishment

10:05 AM EST
1/10/2012 In court filing, Nebraska insists execution drug was obtained legallyNebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning has filed court papers insisting the state's purchase of sodium thiopental for the execution of a death row inmate was all above-board.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Punishment, Execution, Politics, Government, Social Issue, Death And Dying

1:51 PM EST
1/9/2012 Iran sentences American to death for spyingIran is set to execute an American man it has accused of being a CIA spy. Former U.S. Marine Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, 28, was handed the death penalty for spying after he was convicted by Iran's Revolutionary Court. The sentence was handed down the same day that Iran's security forces claimed to have squashed a U.S. spy network.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Punishment, Execution, Unrest, Conflicts And War, Politics

11:03 AM EST
1/4/2012 Bangladesh teacher ordered to jail over Facebook postA university instructor has been sentenced to six months in jail for failing to answer a Bangladesh court summons in connection with comments he allegedly made on Facebook wishing death to the country's prime minister.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Punishment, Arts, Culture And Entertainment, Internet, Politics, Government, Executive (government)

8:03 AM EST
1/4/2012 Algeria kills another AQIM aideAlgerian security forces claim to have killed Mohand Ouramdane, a senior aide to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The incident happened less than a week after an Algerian court sentenced AQIM's radical leader Abdelhamid Abou Zeid to life imprisonment in absentia.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Punishment, Unrest, Conflicts And War, Act Of Terror, Human Interest, People, Human Mishap

9:03 AM EST
12/19/2011 Republican operative to be sentenced Monday for stealing mayor's moneyA Republican operative convicted of defrauding New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg of more than $1 million is scheduled to be sentenced Monday. John Haggerty faces 15 years in prison after being found guilty in October of grand larceny and money laundering.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Punishment, Politics, Government, Public Officials, Election, Campaign Finance

3:30 PM EST
12/15/2011 New death sentences fall to lowest levels in 35 yearsThe number of new death sentences in the United States fell to its lowest level in 35 years in 2011.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Punishment, Execution, Social Issue

7:09 AM EST
12/15/2011 Ex-French leader Chirac sentenced to 2-year suspended jail over corruptionFormer French President Jacques Chirac was given a two-year suspended sentence Thursday after he was found guilty of corruption.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Punishment, Corporate Crime, Corruption, Politics, Government, Heads Of State