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Being the victim of an honor killing in Peoria, Arizona Noor Faleh Almaleki [ 1 ] ( Arabic : نور فالح المالكي ; c. 1989 – November 2, 2009) was an Iraqi American woman who was murdered by her father in an honor killing .
Two parents allegedly tried to choke their 17-year-old daughter outside her high school in an attempted “honor killing” for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man, according to police.
Around 2017, City University of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Ric Curtis led a team that analyzed honor killing statistics from Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and made a proxy estimate for the United States based on that, resulting in an estimated 23–27 annual honor killings in the U.S.
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Three teenagers and a 20-year-old man have been indicted in the death of an Arizona 16-year-old boy who was found badly beaten outside a Halloween party last year, the Maricopa County prosecutor said.
Honor killing is not a means to control sexual power or behavior. What's behind it is the issue of fertility or reproductive power. [49] In some cultures, honor killings are considered less serious than other murders simply because they arise from long-standing cultural traditions and are thus deemed appropriate or justifiable. [48]
Cleophus Emmanuel Cooksey Jr. (born March 25, 1982) is an accused American spree killer from Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. He has been charged with nine murders and other crimes committed in the city and in surrounding areas during a 21-day span between November and December 2017. [1] [2] All nine victims had been shot. [3]
An Arizona man convicted of murdering two people in 1980 was put to death Wednesday in the state’s third execution since officials started carrying out the death penalty in May after a nearly ...