Russian court convicts man of 1st of 49 murders
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A Moscow court found former supermarket  worker, Alexander Pichushkin, guilty on Wednesday of the first  of 49 murder charges against him, a Reuters reporter inside the  courtroom said.
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A former Rwandan officer is found guilty of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers during the 1994 genocide.
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Material from a man accused of killing five women matched that found on his alleged victims, a court hears.
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A Russian court overturns the acquittal of four army officers accused of murdering six civilians in Chechnya.
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A Russian court on Friday sentenced five teenagers to prison terms for beating a Jewish man, dragging him to a cemetery and fatally stabbing him with metal cemetery cross, a court official said.
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Russia's first race hate murder trial ends in long jail terms for three men who killed an African medical student.
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Alexander Pichushkin, branded the 'chessboard killer' by the Russian media, is sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of 48 murders.
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Moscow court finds former supermarket worker Alexander Pichushkin guilty of murder.
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BESLAN, Russia  - A Russian court granted an amnesty to three policemen who were charged with negligence for failing to prevent the 2004 Beslan school massacre, in which 331 people died.
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CHELYABINSK, Russia  - A Russian court on Tuesday   sentenced a conscript to four years in prison for abusing a   younger recruit so badly doctors had to amputate his legs and   genitals.
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Russia's ex-atomic energy minister Yevgeny Adamov is found guilty of embezzling budget funds.
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A court has cleared a man accused of murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing, Northern Ireland's worst atrocity in three decades of violence.
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The first death sentence is given in  the 1993 serial bombings case in the Indian city of Mumbai.
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A man with a history of crime and psychiatric troubles was convicted Wednesday of viciously murdering two girls and a woman and sentenced to life in prison for the series of macabre slayings that shocked France three years ago.
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The Russian supermarket worker found  guilty of murdering 48 people told his trial on Thursday he  felt like God as he decided if his victims should live or die.
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The Russian supermarket worker found guilty of murdering 48 people told his trial on Thursday he felt like God as he decided if his victims should live or die.
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In a final statement in court, a man convicted of killing 48 people in one of Russia's worst murder sprees said Thursday he was "almost God," with the power to decide who lives and who dies.