Teacher Gets Life for Hatchet Slaying
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An elementary school teacher who hacked her husband to death with a hatchet was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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A prestigious medical school was tipped off one of its students had been a Nazi sympathizer, released on parole after being convicted in 2000 of a murder.
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NICKEL MINES, Penn.  - The 32-year-old dairy truck driver who stormed a one-room school and killed five girls apparently chose the schoolhouse because it was an easy target rather than because he had a grudge against the Amish, police said.
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MILWAUKEE -- Fifth-grade teacher Amy Tromp lights a match and then the small pile of sage she holds in a shell. The sage begins to smolder, its smell stinging the nose.
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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 jury convicted a man of murder Tuesday for firing an arrow into the heart of a bystander across the street from his home.
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A teacher's husband came to her Ohio elementary school Thursday and shot her, but no children were injured, police said.
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A retired teacher is found guilty of the murder of his wife in Cumbria, nearly 30 years ago.
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Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) - A man with a knife killed eight people and injured four others at a high school Friday, in the deadliest of a series of knife attacks at Chinese schools in recent months, the government said.
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SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota  - South Dakota carried out its first execution in 60 years on Wednesday, putting to death a 25-year-old inmate convicted of torturing and killing a 19-year-old man following a robbery.
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A federal jury convicted a 23-year-old man on an obscure weapons charge Tuesday, apparently unaware that 10 years ago he and another boy killed four classmates and a teacher in a schoolyard ambush.
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The Taliban gunmen who murdered two teachers in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday were only following their rules: Teachers receive a warning, then a beating, and if they continue to teach must be killed.
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A man who killed eight children during a rampage through a Japanese school is executed by hanging.
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A former university teacher was given a 19-year prison sentence this week for her role in the murder of a colleague's wife during the Rwanda genocide, a witness at the trial told AFP Saturday.
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A man already imprisoned for his role in a 1973 shooting spree that left three dead was given a life sentence for trying to hire a hit man to kill a prosecutor and former police officer.
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A teacher who was killed nearly 11 years ago tried to talk a carjacker out of taking her life, even offering to help him get a job, according to a transcript of her secretly recorded pleas that was released Wednesday.
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A head teacher is shot at a high school in the US state of Wisconsin and a suspect is in custody, reports say.