Suicide pact husband spared jail
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A former policeman who killed his terminally ill wife in an abortive suicide pact is sentenced.
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A teen freed from prison this year after his life sentence for killing a young playmate was overturned received an extended probation period Friday after violating his curfew, and was freed once more.
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A former apartheid soldier-turned-mercenary avoided the death penalty at a sentencing here Friday, but still received a 34-year prison term for trying to overthrow the government of this oil-rich West African nation.
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The husband of the former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was put under house detention yesterday as a court ordered his arrest in a murder case, just a month after he had been freed on bail.
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A former state trooper was sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail for shooting to death an unarmed, mentally disabled man he mistook for a fugitive.
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A former Unitarian minister was freed from jail Friday after a federal magistrate ruled he cannot be extradited to Ireland to face trial for his role in a Dublin woman's 2002 suicide.
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IN AN order that could change political alignments in Pakistan, the Supreme Court has granted bail to Benazir Bhuttoâs husband Asif Zardari, in prison for nearly eight years now for a string of criminal and economic offences.
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An injunction banning a man from taking his sick wife to Switzerland for an assisted suicide is lifted by a court.
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A British man whose life sentence for drugs offences was quashed by the Supreme Court in Thailand last week returned home Tuesday to an emotional welcome from his family.
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A man who denies murdering two women and attempting to murder two others tells a jury he was depressed and suicidal.
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A man who shot his wife to death because she wanted to leave him was executed Wednesday, the first Ohio inmate put to death using new injection guidelines adopted because the last execution was plagued with problems.
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PITTSBURGH - A man who botched the castration of a transgendered woman will spend the next three years on probation. "I have no intention of doing this again to animals or humans," Douglas Lenhart, 49, told Allegheny County Judge John Zottola on Monday. "I'm completely out of this.
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A man accused of killing his wife with a sledgehammer in 2004 has been ruled too mentally incompetent to stand trial and will remain in a state mental health facility, a judge ruled.Comment
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Chatroom users who watched a man apparently commit suicide over the internet will not face charges.
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CHATROOM users who incited a Midland man to kill himself live on the internet will not face prosecution.   Detectives were considering criminal charges against web users who encouraged Kevin Whitrick to hang himself at his home in Wellington, Shropshire, on March 21.
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A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but with time served could be released on probation in a little more than two months.
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A brother and sister were  sentenced by a French court to 25 years jail each on Friday  after being convicted over the killing of her estranged  husband, a British lord, to stop a love rival inheriting a  fortune.