Polish author convicted of murder
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A court Wednesday convicted an author of directing the killing of a businessman in a crime that bore eerie similarities to a murder he described in a novel three years later.
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A confessed serial killer was convicted of murder Wednesday in a case brought by prosecutors desperately trying to keep him from getting out of prison in less than two years.
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A court has convicted seven men in the 2000 murder of journalist Igor Domnikov &#151; one of more than a dozen killed during President Vladimir Putin's years in power.
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders, which he recorded on a chessboard, to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killing cases.
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A woman accused of offering her younger lover a share of her husband's multimillion-dollar estate if he would kill the 69-year-old was convicted Friday of murder-for-hire and other charges.
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A radical Muslim demonstrator was found  guilty on Wednesday of two counts of inciting murder at  protests in London last year against cartoons in a Danish  newspaper which offended many Muslims.
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Conrad Black, the former head of a newspaper empire, was convicted today of mail fraud and obstruction of justice but acquitted of several other counts.
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Aleksandr Y. Pichushkin, dubbed the âBittsa Maniacâ in Russian media, was found guilty today of murdering 48 people.
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Salvador Dali's former personal assistant has been convicted for marring a painting by the Spanish surrealist master, the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation said Thursday.
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A Polish crime writer has been jailed for 25 years after authorities found he had committed a murder that had been described in one of his thrillers, officials said on Wednesday.
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Jerzy Urban, editor of the weekly satirical Nie and a former spokesman for the Polish Communist government, is currently on trial and could face between three months and three years in prison if found guilty.
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The former acting mayor of a sleepy mill town on the Alabama-Georgia line was convicted Tuesday of murdering his wife while on a lunch break six years ago.
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A jury on Wednesday convicted two teenage brothers of murdering a 10-year-old Nigerian boy as he walked home from a London library nearly six years ago, a killing that horrified Britain and launched a debate about inner-city violence.
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A website designer was found guilty Thursday of inciting murder during a protest by Muslims angered by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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ISTANBUL, Sept. 21 -- A leading Turkish author was acquitted Thursday of "insulting Turkishness" in a novel that touches on the mass killings of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.
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The husband of former state Controller Kathy Augustine was convicted Friday of killing her by injecting her with a paralyzing drug that FBI experts detected in her system months after her death.
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A radical Muslim demonstrator was found guilty on Wednesday of two counts of inciting murder at protests in London last year against cartoons in a Danish newspaper which offended many Muslims.