Respect and over can deliver faction standing hits now in nation space?
(victim was respected, and I was respected,
dialog box of forgiveness came up, not in nfz, in wh sector, monitored.)

Dying in a conquerable station with the conquerable station set as home delivers you to your respective nation space.

Replicate:
home latos n15
dock latos i8
home latos i8
launch and /explode

I'd say the first could be a feature that ray hasn't decided to tell us about, but as my understanding of the faction system is, it's a bug.

The second is a new feature designed to prevent players from 'sniping' the conquerable stations by using alts to login and take the docks.

Actually these are both features, respect delivers a faction hit but its relatively minor (only a few points).

Was this one of the Big 3 nations and the station was owned by the same nation as the Victim? This is how it's been the whole time afaik.

Lately I killed someone in UIT space who was UIT neutral and I got a standing hit (maybe around 100 points, I don't quite remember). I'm sure it's not new though, it already happened months ago.

ARF: Killed a UIT in Itani Space.