Promoter gets life in prison for "Speed King" murder
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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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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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A California judge sentenced 17-year-old Scott Dyleski to life in prison without parole for bludgeoning the wife of a prominent criminal defense attorney to death.
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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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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 British man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing a compatriot in August 2003 during a bar brawl in Faliraki, a tourist spot on the Greek island of Rhodes, judicial sources said.
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One of South Korea's richest men is given a suspended jail sentence over his conviction for a revenge beating.
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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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His driving was too swift, but his thinking wasn't. A 28-year-old man who blew up a speed camera, hoping to destroy evidence of his speeding, was sentenced to four months in prison on Wednesday.
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The killers of a City lawyer are jailed as his fiancee speaks of having her "heart ripped out" by his murder.
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A man who tried to pin his wife's brutal slaying on their 12-year-old daughter was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for first-degree murder.
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A man facing execution in Texas for driving the car a murderer escaped in has his sentence commuted to life.
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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  convicted of bludgeoning his ex-lover to death with a crowbar and burning her body, is jailed for life.
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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 man who blew up a speed camera as he feared he would lose his licence is jailed for four months.
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Former St. Louis Blues player Mike Danton was sentenced Monday to 7 1/2 years in prison for a failed murder-for-hire plot to kill his agent.