Rapist who cut throat gets life
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A handyman who raped and tried to kill a woman who was walking her dog is given a life sentence.
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A woman who admitted strangling her four young children in an Indiana basement was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole for each child's death.
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A man is jailed for life for the murder of a grandmother he sexually assaulted and mutilated in a bus station toilet.
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A former policeman who killed his terminally ill wife in an abortive suicide pact is sentenced.
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A man gets life for stabbing his ex-partner and mother of his child because he was unable to contain his jealousy after their relationship ended.
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JARRATT, Va.  - An alcoholic, brain-damaged man  who stabbed an elderly woman to death with a pair of scissors  in 1996 was executed in Virginia on Thursday night.
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A University of North Dakota student fought for her life when a convicted sex offender abducted her in a parking lot, raped her and killed her, a federal prosecutor told jurors before they began deliberations Tuesday.
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A convicted killer who argued that Florida's use of lethal injection amounted to cruel and unusual punishment was put to death Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly denied him another stay.
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A man is jailed for 15 years after admitting the murder of a man who died five months after being beaten.
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A man accused of the serial murders of seven women was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole in the first of a series of scheduled trials.
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A death row inmate whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court banning execution of the mentally retarded has had his sentence commuted to life in prison.
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A man who urinated on a woman as she lay dying in a street is sentenced to three years in prison.
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The confessed killer of Swedish  Foreign Minister Anna Lindh had his life jail sentence  confirmed by the Supreme Court Thursday after he appealed for  leniency saying he was mentally ill when he stabbed her.
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A federal jury decided Thursday that the sex offender convicted of kidnapping college student Dru Sjodin, killing her and leaving her body in Minnesota ravine is eligible for the death penalty.
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A homeless man was sentenced Monday to 25 years to life in prison for knifing a woman to death in a mall parking garage because she was white.
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The court reinstated a death sentence for a rapist and murderer whose appeal over the exclusion of a juror had succeeded in lower courts.
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A Florida judge on Friday sentenced a man to death for kidnapping, raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl who was snatched from her bed and buried alive in a plastic garbage bag.