Ex-Klansman gets life for Mississippi killings
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - A former Ku Klux Klansman was sentenced to three life terms on Friday for his role in the 1964 killings of two black men in a case emblematic of white supremacist violence during the civil rights era.
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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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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas on Tuesday executed a San Antonio man condemned to death for the murders of two rivals in a 1994 gang leadership dispute.
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JACKSON, Miss. -- A reputed Ku Klux Klansman is scheduled to go on trial this week on kidnapping and conspiracy charges in the deaths of two young black men who were abducted, beaten and dumped into the muddy Mississippi River more than 43 years ago.
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A suspected Ku Klux Klansman has been  arrested for the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in  Mississippi, reopening one of the most notorious civil  rights-era crimes, police said on Friday.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man convicted of murdering a couple who discovered him burglarizing their home in 1999 was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday.
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A drug kingpin was convicted Thursday of murdering five people in a scheme to silence two former dealers turned informants, a verdict that could make him the first person sentenced to death in Iowa in more than 40 years.
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Boston gangster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the 1981 murder of a Tulsa businessman.
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The man who killed former Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh will serve his life sentence in prison, the Swedish Supreme Court has ruled.
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A race promoter convicted of the 1988 murder of car racing legend Mickey Thompson and his wife was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison with no possibility for parole.
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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 who pleaded guilty to killing three neighbors in a long-running dispute over a shared driveway was executed Wednesday night.
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A former Protestant guerrilla was  sentenced 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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A confessed serial killer due to be  paroled from a Texas prison in April 2006 was convicted of  murder on Wednesday for the stabbing death of a Michigan woman  25 years ago.
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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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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 confessed serial killer due to be paroled from a Texas prison in April 2006 was convicted of murder on Wednesday for the stabbing death of a Michigan woman 25 years ago.