N.D. student's killer sentenced to death
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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 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 Russian court on Tuesday sentenced four men to prison terms of between seven and 14 years for the racially motivated killing of a Congolese student.
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A US soldier has been sentenced to three years in prison for murdering a severely wounded Iraqi teenager earlier this year, the US military says.
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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 University of North Dakota student fought for her life when a convicted sex offender abducted her in a parking lot, raped her and killed her, a federal prosecutor told jurors before they began deliberations Tuesday.
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An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam
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Two 19-year-old men were jailed for life for the racially-aggravated murder of a Pakistan-born taxi driver in northern England, who was beaten to death after being lured into a trap.
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A 57-year-old man is jailed for life after killing a young mother and dismembering her body.
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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 murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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A condemned killer was executed Wednesday night for the 1996 fatal shooting of a man during a car theft.
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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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BAGHDAD, Sept. 25 -- A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of an Iraqi National Guardsman in May, the U.S. military said Saturday.
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Three teenagers convicted of killing father of three who was kicked to death outside his home
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man was put to death  by lethal injection on Wednesday for murdering two teen-agers  while high on drugs in 1995.
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A convicted sex offender was sentenced Friday to death for kidnapping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, raping her and burying her alive in his yard.