Killer's jail term increased
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A Belfast man who murdered his former girlfriend has his jail term increased from 10 to 15 years.
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The UN war crimes court jails a Bosnian Serb general for life over the Sarajevo siege, increasing his earlier 20-year-sentence on appeal.
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A prison sentence given to a drink-driver who killed five people is not long enough, say a victim's parents.
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A confessed serial killer was put away for the rest of his life Tuesday after being convicted in a murder case brought by Michigan prosecutors in a desperate bid to keep him from getting out of prison less two years from now.
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A man accused of being the Phoenix Baseline Killer was sentenced to 438 years in prison Friday for the sexual assaults of two sisters.
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The number of inmates killing themselves in prisons rose significantly in 2007, figures show.
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A 35-year-old man who pleaded guilty to murdering five older people was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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Judges are asked to increase the minimum six-year jail term given to Britain's most prolific paedophile.
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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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Russian killer Alexander Pichushkin is jailed for life for 48 murders which he noted on a chessboard.
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A killer whose life was spared last year when Illinois&#39; governor emptied out death row could again face a death sentence - this time in Missouri - if convicted of murdering his boss in St.
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Federal prosecutors sought two life sentences Tuesday for a militant abortion opponent already serving 25 years to life for murdering a doctor who performed abortions.
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JOHN Lennon&#39;s killer, Mark David Chapman, will remain in prison for at least two more years after being denied parole because of the &quot;extreme malicious intent&quot; he showed in gunning down the former Beatle in 1980.
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A Belfast man who murdered his ex-girlfriend in 2002 is due to hear if his jail term is to be extended.
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The convicted murderer of a millionaire banker received the maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison Tuesday at an emotional hearing where the victim's two children denounced the killer for stealing their childhoods.
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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.