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Death of Thomas Kelly
Death of Thomas Kelly: 18-year-old killed by a single unprovoked punch by Kieran Loveridge in Kings Cross, Sydney, on 7 July 2012; his manslaughter case drove NSW's one-punch law.
Death of Tina Watson
Death of Tina Watson: 26-year-old American bride who drowned on 22 October 2003 diving the Yongala wreck off Townsville, Queensland, on her honeymoon with Gabe Watson, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Australia and was acquitted of capital murder in Alabama in 2012.
Death of Victoria Martens
Death of Victoria Martens, 10-year-old Albuquerque girl killed on her birthday, 2016; also known as the Victoria Martens case. False confession, dropped murder charges, unidentified fourth suspect, and convictions of Michelle Martens, Fabian Gonzales, and Jessica Kelley.
Death of Zac Brettler
Death of Zac Brettler: 19-year-old Londoner (Zac Ismailov persona) who fell from a Riverwalk balcony opposite MI6 in November 2019 after an evening with Sharma and Shamji; open 2022 inquest, no charges, subject of Keefe's London Falling.
Death of Zara Qairina Mahathir
Death of Zara Qairina Mahathir, also called the Zara Qairina case: the July 2025 death of a 13-year-old SMKA Tun Datu Mustapha student in Papar, Sabah, Malaysia, after a suspected third-floor hostel fall, followed by exhumation, autopsy, bullying charges against five teenagers, and a coroner's inquest.
Death Penalty for Terrorists Law (חוק עונש מוות למחבלים)
Israeli law of March 30, 2026 (חוק עונש מוות למחבלים) mandating death by hanging for West Bank residents convicted of terrorist murder, removing prior safeguards; passed 62-48, effective April 5, 2026.
Death row
Death row is the prison section holding people sentenced to death pending appeals or execution. About 25,508 people were under death sentence worldwide at end of 2025; housing varies from solitary confinement to shared units.
Death threat
A death threat is a message or deed expressing firm intent to kill or gravely injure someone, criminal when it meets standards of seriousness, credibility, and intent.
Deaths of the Neville-Lake children
Deaths of the Neville-Lake children: Daniel (9), Harrison (5), and Milly (2), killed with grandfather Gary Neville in Vaughan, Ontario, on September 27, 2015 by drunk driver Marco Muzzo, who received a 10-year sentence and full parole in 2021.
DeBlase children murders
The DeBlase children murders: Natalie, 4, and Chase DeBlase, 3, killed in Mobile, Alabama in 2010; father John Joseph DeBlase and Heather Leavell-Keaton were each convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death.
Debora Green
Debora Green (born Debora Jones, 1951) is an American former oncologist who pleaded no contest to the 1995 arson killing of her children Tim and Kelly in Prairie Village, Kansas, and to ricin-poisoning her husband Michael Farrar; serving a hard 40 sentence.
Deborah Coyne
Deborah Coyne (Deborah Margaret Ryland Coyne, born 1955, Ottawa) is a Canadian lawyer, author and constitutional activist who opposed the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords, advised Clyde Wells, and ran for the 2012 Liberal leadership.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "D.C. Madam," ran the Pamela Martin & Associates escort service in Washington for 13 years, was convicted of racketeering and money laundering in 2008, and died by hanging two weeks later in a ruled suicide.
Deborah K. Chasanow
Deborah K. Chasanow (born 1948) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the District of Maryland, appointed by President Clinton in 1993.
Deborah L. Boardman
Deborah L. Boardman, born Deborah Lynn Boardman in 1974, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the District of Maryland since 2021.
Deborah L. Cook
Deborah L. Cook, born 1952 in Pittsburgh, is a senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (confirmed 2003, 66-25) and former 146th justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, 1995-2003.
Debra A. Livingston
Debra A. Livingston, born 1959, is an American jurist on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, appointed by George W. Bush in 2007.
Debra Lafave
Debra Lafave is a former Florida middle school teacher who pleaded guilty in 2005 to lewd or lascivious battery on a student. The case sparked national debate over sentencing.
Debra M. Brown
Debra Marie Brown (born 1963) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Mississippi since 2013, appointed by President Barack Obama and chief judge since 2021.
Debtor
A debtor is a person or entity that owes a debt or other obligation, usually money, to another party known as the creditor; in secured transactions the debtor pledges collateral.
Debtors' prison
Debtors' prison: incarceration for unpaid debts, from England's Fleet and Marshalsea to US abolition (New York, 1831) and Bearden v. Georgia (1983), with modern jailings for unpaid fines and fees in Texas, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma.
Decapitation
Decapitation is the separation of the head from the body, killing by severing the spinal cord and the brain's blood supply; it remains a judicial execution method in Saudi Arabia.
DeCavalcante crime family
DeCavalcante crime family, also called the New Jersey family or 'Real Sopranos': an Elizabeth/Newark-based La Cosa Nostra family, the only indigenous New Jersey Mafia family, built on construction union rackets under Simone 'Sam the Plumber' DeCavalcante and John Riggi.
Decimation (punishment)
Decimation (decimatio) was a Roman military punishment in which one man in ten of a disgraced unit, chosen by lot, was clubbed to death by comrades; rare in practice, revived by Crassus in 71 BCE, last recorded under Diocletian.
Decker children murders
Decker children murders: May 2025 killings of Paityn, Evelyn, and Olivia Decker of Wenatchee, Washington, during a visit with father Travis Caleb Decker, who suffocated them near Leavenworth and died after a three-month manhunt.
Declaration by United Nations
Declaration by United Nations, signed 1 January 1942 in Washington, D.C. by 26 Allied states including the US, UK, USSR, and China; first official use of the name United Nations, pledging full war effort and no separate peace.
Declaration of Neutrality
Declaration of Neutrality: Austria's Federal Constitutional Law of 26 October 1955 (BGBl. 211/1955) declaring permanent neutrality, banning military alliances and foreign bases, enacted after the 1955 State Treaty ended Allied occupation.
Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
UN General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV), the Declaration on Decolonization, adopted 14 December 1960 by 89 votes to none with 9 abstentions; proclaimed an end to colonialism and the right of all peoples to self-determination.
Decree
Decree: a formal binding order issued by an executive authority (president, monarch, government) with legal force without a legislative vote; also called DNU, royal decree, or presidential decree; distinguished from executive orders and subject to constitutional review.
Dee D. Drell
Dee D. Drell is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Louisiana, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2003.