Ex-vice principal sentenced to death
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A former elementary school vice principal was sentenced to death Thursday for the brutal murders of his wife, three small children and mother-in-law.
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The former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney was convicted today of lying to F.B.I. agents and grand jurors investigating the unmasking of a C.I.A. operative amid a burning dispute over the Iraq war.
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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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Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after an anti-graft court found him guilty of plunder and barred him from holding public office again.
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A U.S. Marine convicted of negligent homicide in the 2006 stabbing death of an Iraqi soldier was sentenced on Friday to a bad-conduct discharge and reduced in rank to private.
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A former Harvard graduate student was sentenced to two years in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for stabbing to death a teenager who made fun of him.
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A former policeman who killed his terminally ill wife in an abortive suicide pact is given a suspended sentence.
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A former policeman who killed his terminally ill wife in an abortive suicide pact is sentenced.
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Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after an anti-graft court found him guilty of plunder.
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A man involved in the murder of a father shot dead in front of his two children is jailed for life.
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The former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney was found guilty on Tuesday of lying and obstructing a probe related to the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war and could face years in prison.
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A former school governor who drugged his daughters' schoolfriends and simulated their murders is jailed.
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China sentenced the former head of its food and drugs agency to death for corruption on Tuesday in a surprise judgment as the government sought to contain a wave of scandals over health safety.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 6 -- Former governor George H. Ryan, who won global attention for emptying Illinois's death row, was sentenced to 6 1/2  years in prison Wednesday for a decade of tawdry corruption and official lies that he minimized to the end.
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A once-powerful state senator at the center of a corruption scandal was sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for taking payoffs from the health care industry.
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A lawyer who stabbed his neighbor to death because he thought the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter.
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Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation &#151; the probe that showed a White House obsessed with criticism of its decision to go to war.