Sarah Khalifa and 11 others were sentenced to death by hanging in Egypt over a drug manufacturing and trafficking operation involving more than 750kg of narcotics. Nine other defendants received life sentences and seven were acquitted in the case.
The Guardian's brief covers only the bare facts of the sentencing. Al Jazeera provides an extensive, detailed account including Khalifa's personal life, emotional courtroom testimony, procedural appeal avenues, and a related separate conviction, but does not include the Amnesty International commentary on death penalty proportionality found in BBC's account.
BBC reports the sentencing straightforwardly as a legal/crime story, citing state-run Egyptian media for case details, and adds broader context on Egypt's use of the death penalty via an Amnesty International statistic and critique that the underlying crimes did not meet the international standard for capital punishment.
No right-of-center outlet in our set has published this story.