Ex-Klansman gets life for Mississippi killings
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - A former Ku Klux Klansman was sentenced to three life terms on Friday for his role in the 1964 killings of two black men in a case that highlights white supremacist violence during the civil rights era.
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JACKSON, Miss. -- A reputed Ku Klux Klansman is scheduled to go on trial this week on kidnapping and conspiracy charges in the deaths of two young black men who were abducted, beaten and dumped into the muddy Mississippi River more than 43 years ago.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man convicted of murdering a couple who discovered him burglarizing their home in 1999 was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday.
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A drug kingpin was convicted Thursday of murdering five people in a scheme to silence two former dealers turned informants, a verdict that could make him the first person sentenced to death in Iowa in more than 40 years.
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An inmate was executed Wednesday for the drug-related slayings of a south Texas couple in 1995. Officials cut his final statement short after he tried to argue with the victims&#039; relatives.
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A San Antonio man with a previous conviction for manslaughter was executed Thursday for the abduction, rape and fatal stabbing of a woman more than 12 years ago.
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A Belfast court sentenced a former  Protestant guerrilla to life imprisonment on Thursday for the  murder of Catholic lawyer Pat Finucane, one of the most  controversial killings in 30 years of sectarian conflict in  Northern Ireland.
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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 has been jailed for life for the racist murder of the Glasgow teenager Kriss Donald.
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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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A state appeals court Friday refused to vacate the murder conviction of ex-Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry, who died while serving a life term for the deaths of four black girls in a 1963 Birmingham church bombing.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man who spent 25 years on Texas death row was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for a 1980 murder after prison officials had to carry him to the death chamber.
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A former boxer who pledged to "kill all black people" is convicted of attempting to murder two people.
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A US jury convicts an ex-Ku Klux Klan member over the deaths of two black teenagers in 1964.
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A man who pleaded guilty to killing three neighbors in a long-running dispute over a shared driveway was executed Wednesday night.
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A convicted murderer who escaped from a Michigan psychiatric facility in 1976 was back behind bars Thursday after living most of his 30 years on the run as an otherwise law-abiding family man in Tennessee, authorities said.
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A former Protestant guerrilla was  sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for the murder of  Catholic lawyer Pat Finucane, one of the most controversial  killings in 30 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.