Sweden Politician's Killer Sentenced
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Sweden's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the man convicted of murdering Foreign Minister Anna Lindh will serve his sentence in prison rather than in psychiatric care, reversing a contentious decision by a lower court.
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Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan,  promoted as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate for his vigorous  opposition to capital punishment, was sentenced to 6-1/2 years  in prison on Wednesday for corrupt dealings while in office.
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The confessed killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh had his life jail sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court Thursday after he appealed for leniency saying he was mentally ill when he stabbed her.
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Sweden's highest court said on Monday that it will review in November the conviction for murder of the man who stabbed foreign minister Anna Lindh to death a year ago.
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A Swedish Pentecostal minister who was sentenced to a month in jail last year for preaching against homosexuality appealed the verdict yesterday.
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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 man has been jailed for life for the racist murder of the Glasgow teenager Kriss Donald.
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders, which he recorded on a chessboard, to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killing cases.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 31 -- A former police officer was sentenced to death and nine other men, including a senior civil servant, were given long prison sentences Thursday for the murders of a leading opposition politician in Kazakhstan and two of his employees.
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Sweden&#39;s Supreme Court Thursday issued an irreversible life sentence to Mijailo Mijailovic for fatally stabbing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.
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Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh's confessed killer sought leniency in a Supreme Court appeal on Wednesday, with his lawyer arguing he was mentally ill when he attacked her and should not be jailed for murder.
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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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A Philippine court sentenced three men to life in prison on Friday for killing a newspaper columnist, a rare conviction in one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists.
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A loyalist who confessed to murdering Pat Finucane is sentenced to 22 years imprisonment.
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Lawyers for a man who has admitted killing Sweden's foreign minister want him treated as a psychiatric patient, not a common criminal.
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Sweden&#39;s supreme court gave the go-ahead yesterday for the family of the murdered foreign minister, Anna Lindh, and the prosecution to seek a tougher sentence for her killer, who in turn may appeal against his conviction.
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STOCKHOLM: The confessed killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh had his life sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court yesterday after he appealed for leniency saying he was mentally ill when he stabbed her.