Life term for 'chessboard' killer
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Russian killer Alexander Pichushkin is jailed for life for 48 murders which he noted on a chessboard.
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A Russian man who has confessed to killing 63 people with the goal of marking all 64 squares on the chessboard showed no remorse Monday as his murder trial wrapped up, mocking both prosecutors and his own lawyers.
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A convicted serial killer was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the 1974 slaying of a 19-year-old Western Michigan University student.
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A Jewish settler convicted of murdering four Palestinians and injuring a fifth in an attack he hoped would prevent Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip last year was sentenced Wednesday to four consecutive life terms plus an additional 12 years in prison.
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Paul R. Shanley, whose name figured prominently in the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Archdiocese of Boston, could be sentenced to life in prison.
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Stop executions for a while and perhaps they can be stopped forever. That calculation has been part of the strategy of capital punishment opponents for decades.
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A confessed serial killer was convicted of murder Wednesday in a case brought by prosecutors desperately trying to keep him from getting out of prison in less than two years.
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The Georgia parole board on Monday granted a 90-day stay of execution for a convicted police killer whose case had drawn pleas for clemency amid claims he might not be guilty.
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Derrick Todd Lee got a life sentence for the murder of Geralyn DeSoto. Now the man authorities say is a serial killer faces another trial that could put him on death row.
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Aleksandr Y. Pichushkin was convicted last week of murdering 48 people and trying to kill three others. The Russian news media had dubbed him the Chessboard Killer.
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A rapist who killed college student Dru Sjodin six months after being released from prison was formally sentenced to death Thursday in a case that led to tougher sex-offender laws.
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Â· Elderly woman found battered to death at home  Â· Sex attacker who killed in 2005 also lived at facility
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By Lisa Kim Bach  By LISA KIM BACH  REVIEW-JOURNAL  The soft side of a killer isn't usually seen in a courtroom.  Many of them apparently save that for cyberspace.
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A death sentence handed to a Tibetan  monk over a spate of bombings could be commuted to life in  jail, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
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Chess master Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players in history, has died, a spokesman for the World Chess Federation confirmed to CNN Friday. He was 64.
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New York's oldest prisoner Â an 89-year-old former heart surgeon convicted of killing his wife more than 30 years ago Â has been granted parole.
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A millionaire paedophile who once boasted of beating his own "record" of abuse, is given a life sentence.