Texas carried its first execution of 2013 on Thursday in Huntsville, putting Carl Henry Blue to death for setting his then-girlfriend on fire almost 20 years ago. He died by lethal injection. In Georgia, Andrew Allen Cook was executed, convicted of fatally shooting two university students in 1995.
Beatrice Munyenyezi, a Rwandan woman living in New Hampshire, was convicted on Thursday of lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, as a way to obtain U.S. citizenship. She now could be sent back to her native country.
A South African court granted Oscar Pistorius bail on Friday, after his defense lawyers argued he was too famous to pose a flight risk. The court set bail was at 1 million rand, or $113,000.
Three sisters were killed "and the police did nothing for two days," in the town of Murmadi, the the Bhandara district in the Maharashtra state, which is more than 630 miles south of India's capital New Dehli
