Murder

Iran steps up executions as experts warn state killing being used to suppress political dissent

Two of those executed on Monday were killed without advance notice, denying them the chance to meet with their lawyers or say goodbye to their families, according to Amnesty International. 

Protesters display a banner calling for a halt to executions in Iran during a rally in Berlin, Germany, on January 10, 2026, in support of the Iran protests.
ILLUSTRATIVE: POLICE ARREST suspect thought to have allowed illegal immigrants through border, November 30, 2025.

Police arrest three suspects in Arab community murders

This picture taken on April 21, 2021 shows an aerial view of the old city of Israel's Mediterranean coastal city of Jaffa, where French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his soldiers launched an attack between March 3-7, 1799 against the Ottoman-controlled city before capturing it.

Jaffa man shot to death in 66th Israeli Arab murder this year

View of the empty courtroom at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 13, 2025.

Haifa court convicts David Abu Aziz in 2021 murder of attorney Ephraim Arnon


A 12,000-year-old cold case: is this earliest murder recorded in Southeast Asia?

"TBH1 lived for several months after the injury occurred," the researchers wrote, adding that without effective treatment the fracture likely led to infection and death within weeks or months.

The reconstructed skull of a man who died 12,000 years ago in what is now Vietnam.

Australia mushroom murderer Erin Patterson left me 'half alive', lone surviving victim says

A jury found the 50-year-old guilty of the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson, Heather's husband, who survived the 2023 meal at Erin Patterson's home in Leongatha.

Erin Patterson, an Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband's elderly relatives with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms, arrives at Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, August 25, 2025.

Terminally-ill Eilat man arrested for son's murder over 50 years ago

It is unclear how the case will be treated within the legal system, as the statute of limitations does not go this far back.

A road in Eilat with the hotels in the background. October 22, 2008

Was Jeffrey Epstein murdered? His brother certainly thinks so

'Well, the bombshell revelation is that Jeffrey did not commit suicide. And the government is covering it up. How much more do you need than that?'

 US financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019.

Masked in a niqab, American hitwoman attempts assassination in UK murder plot

Aimee Betro, 45, flew to the UK, disguised herself in a niqab, and aimed a handgun at her target. However, the weapon jammed, allowing him to escape.

Police outside of the venue of political party Reform UK's Local Election Campaign Launch, in Birmingham, central England, on March 28, 2025.

Shooting, explosives, sleepless nights: Witnesses recount life amid rampant crime in Arab society

Sara Abu Siam from Lod says fear of violence now defines daily life for Arab youth in Israel, as crime surges and police response lags behind.

 Israeli Border Police force members patrol near the entrances to the Arab-Jewish town of Lod, Israel May 13, 2021.

Israel's concerning new femicide problem: Sons murdering their mothers - opinion

One-third of all femicides in Israel were later found to be matricides.

BEFORE HER father, Vendyl Jones, died in 2010, Sarah Richardson would help him on archaeological digs. This past May, she was murdered by her son, Joel, in yet another femicide in Israel.

Iran's ‘black widow,’ accused of poisoning 11 husbands to death, faces execution 

Her motive is thought to be financial, with her inheriting both properties and dowries from the dead husbands. 

Pictures of Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists and others killed in Israeli strikes are displayed in Behesht Zahra Cemetery in southern Tehran, Iran, July 11, 2025

Family of five massacred after being accused of practising witchcraft

More than 2500 people have been killed in India since the year 2000 over accusations of witchcraft.

A goat grazes outside a community health centre in Bahadurganj subdivision of Kishanganj district, Bihar, India, March 21, 2023. (illustrative)

Gunmen abduct 60 in northern Nigeria, kill villagers in overnight raids

The incident followed a separate mass abduction in Sabongarin Damri, in Zamfara state, on Saturday in which 70 people were taken.

People gather as security personnel stand guard during a visit of government officials following a deadly gunmen attack in Yelwata, Benue State, Nigeria, June 16, 2025.