Stillwater resident and religious zealot Isaiah Zoar Marin was arrested late October after he killed his 19-year-old friend, Jacob Crockett, for apparently practicing witchcraft.
Adding to the horrifying numbers of women who are killed in witch-hunts across several Indian states, another such case was reported by the BBC on October 27.
A Christian woman in Pakistan has been sentenced to hang for making blasphemous comments about Prophet Mohammed during an argument with her Muslim neighbors.
Police in London have looked into more than 30 cases of child abuse over the last year that have been traced back to belief in spirit possession and witchcraft.
A 43-year-old man in Minneapolis faces up to seven years in prison for shooting a gay couple with a BB gun after getting involved in a homophobic altercation.
