Ex-con writer convicted of S.C. murder
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An ex-con who co-authored a book about life in prison was convicted Friday of killing his live-in girlfriend and raping a teenager.
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Description: A jury finds Scott Peterson guilty of first-degree murder. Peterson was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci.
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A man who was convicted in 1990 of raping and murdering a high school classmate when he was 16 was freed from prison Wednesday after DNA evidence implicated another man.
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A prominent former banker was  convicted on Sunday in a $2.2 billion fraud case that drove the  Caribbean nation into an economic tailspin four years ago.
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A federal jury found Hafiz Naseem, a former Credit Suisse Group investment banker, guilty of insider trading and conspiracy.
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A man convicted of six slayings in one of the worst killing sprees in North Carolina history was executed early Friday.
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By KRISTIN M. HALL NASHVILLE, Tenn. - 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 man found guilty 17 years ago of murdering his parents as a teenager was freed from prison Thursday, days after an appeals court overturned the conviction and ordered a retrial because of new evidence.
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A confessed serial killer was convicted of murder Wednesday in case brought by prosecutors in a desperate bid to keep him from getting out of prison in less than two years.
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A court convicted a businessman of ordering the 2001 murder of a journalist who denounced fraud at a religious radio station, but acquitted a priest of the killing.
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An American historian sentenced to seven years in prison for sexual perversion and abuse of minors won early release from prison Tuesday because he wrote a book about Dracula, his attorney said.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A convicted murderer who escaped from a work release program 33 years ago was captured in Alabama, where he had been working construction jobs using his real name, U.S. Marshals announced Saturday.
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Conrad Black, the former head of a newspaper empire, was convicted today of mail fraud and obstruction of justice but acquitted of several other counts.
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A jury convicted a man of murder Tuesday for firing an arrow into the heart of a bystander across the street from his home.
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A Polish author is jailed for murdering a businessman, four years after publishing a novel detailing a similar crime.
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The jury in the murder trial of Scott Peterson has decided that he is guilty of first degree murder in the killing of his wife Laci.
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An ex-convict was arrested Wednesday in a deadly shooting spree in which he allegedly targeted victims at random, killing three men and rattling a rural South Carolina community.