US 'serial killer' gets 438 years
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A US court sentences a suspected serial killer to 438 years in jail for sexual assaults against two sisters.
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A 21-year-old man convicted of three terrorism offences is ordered to serve eight years in prison.
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When prosecutor Norm Gahn filed charges against an unknown serial rapist in 2000 on the basis of his DNA profile, he had no idea when he would find John Doe No. 5. He just knew the six-year statute of limitations was nearing on one of the cases.
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Serial killer Michael Ross has tried for 10 years to speed his own death. On Saturday, little more than an hour before his scheduled execution, Ross' own attorney caused another delay, saying he needed time to examine his own potential conflict of interest.
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Shortly after his third suicide attempt, serial killer Michael Ross wrote that life on death row was increasingly unbearable. He described the isolation of sitting in his cell 23 hours a day for years amid the endless slamming of metal and dark thoughts of his own horrific crimes and his impending execution.
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Prosecutors dropped murder charges Tuesday against a Texas man who spent 17 years on death row for a crime he may not have committed.
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Jose Padilla, a Chicago gang member once accused by the Bush administration of plotting a radioactive bomb attack, was sentenced by a U.S. court on Tuesday to 17 years and four months in prison for supporting terrorism.
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A man convicted in the slayings of a South Texas mother and her teenage son at their home nine years ago was executed Thursday.
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A Marine who said he never fired a shot in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man was sentenced Saturday to 8 years in military prison &#151; the longest sentence yet in the case.
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A US marine is sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in the murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdaniya.
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Iraq News, A US soldier was sentenced to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the murder of a severely injured 16-year-old Iraqi boy, the US military said on Saturday.
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A man accused of the serial murders of seven women was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole in the first of a series of scheduled trials.
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consecutive life terms, plus another 40 years, by an Israeli civil court that found him guilty of five cases of murder of innocent citizens, attempted murder and membership in a terror organization.
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OLYMPIA - A man convicted of deliberately exposing 17 women to HIV, infecting his wife and four others, has been sentenced to more than 178 years in prison.
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Â· Award-winning actor sentenced to 10 monthsÂ· Victims viewed in images were as young as eight
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A woman who fatally stabbed her millionaire psychotherapist husband, whom she met as a 14-year-old girl in treatment, was sentenced Friday to 16 years to life in prison for murder.
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A former construction worker suspected of being a serial predator known as the "Baseline Killer" was convicted Friday in a pair of 2005 sexual attacks.