murder

Japan hanged the first foreigner in 10 years for the murder of a clothing dealer and his family during a robbery attempt.

Winchester Crown Court gave the life sentence to a man who kicked and stomped on his estranged wife until she died.

Police have arrested two men after a woman was found with her throat slashed in her home.

Police have arrested a number of suspects after the body of a best-selling author was discovered in a shallow grave near her home in the Dominican Republic.

A man who killed 19 disabled people "for the sake of society" in 2016, set to plead guilty of all counts of murder in an upcoming trial.

Police in the Philippines have arrested a 21-year-old man for decapitating a woman who spoke to him in English and then eating her brain with rice.

An ex-convict surrendered and told the police that he chopped up and threw away the body of a woman he met on an online dating site in Spain.

A woman from Pennsylvania has been charged for having sexual intercourse with her dog and for hanging her two young children with the pet's leash in the basement.

The American women and children were killed while driving to attend a wedding anniversary party.

A Belarusian man has received a death sentence by firing squad for violently assaulting and then beheading an eight-month-old girl.

A British man has been arrested for beating his daughter to death while staying in a five-star hotel in Kazakhstan.

A woman was stabbed to death minutes before a man was shot dead in Northwest London.

Norwegian Roger Bullman is wanted by Thai police for skipping out on bail after allegedly murdering a British man who was holidaying with wife and child.

Canadian wilderness claims the lives of suspected teenage murderers.

The decapitated body of Katherine Cunningham, 26, was found near a survivalist bunker that was packed with guns and ammunition in Washington with police hunting Jacob Gonzales.

The female was 28-year-old mother Quyen Ngoc Nguyen.

Dylon James Kirkpatrick, 26, from Ramseur, North Carolina, was charged with the murder of 1-year-old Ryker Baker who died on 10 February this year.

The Old Bailey said Lucian Stinci was 'infatuated' with his flatmate Florina Pastina, who he repeatedly hit her over the head with a hammer at the home they shared in London.

Charles Cottingham has been charged with first-degree murder.

Anthony Ray McCall, 32, of Oceanside, snatched Eliza De La Cruz from her mother's arms at a Long Beach home on 3 January 2015.

A masked UK arms dealer has explained on video the ins and outs of his seedy yet lucrative business.

A 38-year-old kung fu instructor from Wallasey, near Liverpool, sentenced to 12 years in jail for attempting to murder his housemate.

The 70-year-old former NFL player opened up to his former book publisher Judith Regan.

Hotel worker Lucian Stinci, 34,attacked Florina Pastina with a hammer at the home they shared in Croydon

Former child carer Yoselyn Ortega is on trial for murder in Manhattan, New York.

Great-grandmother Anne James, 74, was pronounced dead in her cottage in Highgate, Walsall, on Thursday (1 March) after suffering a 'shocking, violent' attack.

Mother Sharon Carrillo, 33, and the dead girl's stepfather Julio Carrillo, 51, have been charged with murdering 10-year-old Marrissa Kennedy in Stockton Springs, Maine.

The 55-year-old had been celebrating his birthday in a clip to friends and fans.

Murderer Doyle Lee Hamm, 61, was said to have been in 'great pain' and left with a dozen puncture wounds after his delayed execution in Alabama.

Suspected serial killer, Bruce McArthur, accused of dumping his victims in plant pots, has been charged with a sixth murder leading the police to fear there may be many more.