Notorious killer sentenced to death in Florida
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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.
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A Florida man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for burning a cross in his front yard to intimidate a black family as they considered buying a nearby house, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
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Boston gangster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the 1981 murder of a Tulsa businessman.
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A court in Thailand sentences a local man to death for the murder of two Russians in Pattaya in February.
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A confessed serial killer due to be  paroled from a Texas prison in April 2006 was convicted of  murder on Wednesday for the stabbing death of a Michigan woman  25 years ago.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man was put to death  by lethal injection on Wednesday for murdering two teen-agers  while high on drugs in 1995.
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A man whose death sentence for impulsively killing a woman during a 1992 robbery was opposed even by some capital punishment supporters was executed by injection early Friday.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida's incoming governor said on Friday he would suspend executions after a medical examiner found that it took a condemned killer 34 minutes to die from a lethal injection because the needles were inserted improperly.
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A man convicted of killing three people, eating the flesh of his youngest victim, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison.
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A man who pleaded guilty to selling heroin laced with a powerful painkiller that killed two people was sentenced Thursday to more than 30 years in prison.
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A father pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing his two children, whose remains were found hidden in a wooded area three years after they disappeared. He was sentenced to life in prison.
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A former Ku Klux Klansman is jailed for life in the US for his role in the abduction and murder of two black teenagers.
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A condemned killer was executed Tuesday night for the fatal prison beating of a convicted child molester.
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killer cases.
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A confessed serial killer was put away for the rest of his life Tuesday after being convicted in a murder case brought by Michigan prosecutors in a desperate bid to keep him from getting out of prison less two years from now.
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A man convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman was executed Thursday, becoming the first person in the United States to die in the electric chair in more than two years.
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INVERNESS, Fla.  -- A convicted sex offender was sentenced Friday to death for kidnapping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, raping her and burying her alive in his yard.