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  2. Murder of Asunta Basterra - Wikipedia

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    Murder of Asunta Basterra. Asunta Yong Fang Basterra Porto (born Fang Yong; 30 September 2000 – 21 September 2013) [1] was a Chinese-born Spanish girl whose body was found in Teo, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, on 22 September 2013, shortly before her thirteenth birthday. The coroner determined she had died by asphyxiation, and had been given at ...

  3. The Asunta Case - Wikipedia

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    Netflix. Release. 26 April 2024. ( 2024-04-26) The Asunta Case (Spanish: El caso Asunta) is a 2024 Spanish crime thriller miniseries created by Ramón Campos, Gema R. Neira, Jon de la Cuesta, and David Orea Arribas based on the murder of Asunta Basterra which stars Candela Peña and Tristán Ulloa .

  4. Capital punishment in Laos - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Laos. The long list of capital crimes enumerated in the statute books of Laos include murder; terrorism; drug trafficking; drug possession; robbery; kidnapping; obstructing an officer in the performance of his public duties and causing his death or causing him physically disability; disrupting industry ...

  5. Capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [1] [2] is the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime, usually following an authorised, rule-governed process to conclude that the person is responsible for violating norms that warrant said punishment. [3]

  6. Solomon Peña - Wikipedia

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    Solomon Pena (born April 1983) is an American politician who was the Republican nominee for the 14th district of the New Mexico House of Representatives in 2022. Pena attracted national attention when he was arrested on January 16, 2023, for allegedly hiring men to shoot at various Democratic politicians in response to his loss in the November ...

  7. Filártiga v. Peña-Irala - Wikipedia

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    Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.2d 876 (2d Cir. 1980), was a landmark case in United States and international law.It set the precedent for United States federal courts to punish non-American citizens for tortious acts committed outside the United States that were in violation of public international law (the law of nations) or any treaties to which the United States is a party.

  8. Murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Peña - Wikipedia

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    40 years in prison. The rapes and murders of Jennifer Lee Ertman and Elizabeth Christine Peña, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, aged 14 and 16, respectively, occurred on June 24, 1993. The murder of the two girls made headlines in Texas newspapers due to the nature of the crime and the new law resulting from the murder that allows ...

  9. Afonso Pena - Wikipedia

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    Afonso Pena. Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena [a] ( Portuguese: [aˈfõsu awˈɡustu moˈɾejɾɐ ˈpenɐ]; 30 November 1847 – 14 June 1909), often referred to as Afonso Pena, was a Brazilian lawyer, professor and politician who served as the 6th president of Brazil from 1906 until his death in 1909. Pena was elected in 1906, the chosen successor ...