Russian sentenced for killing lawmaker
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A court Thursday handed out a prison sentence to a man accused of involvement to the 1998 murder of a liberal Russian lawmaker but set another convict free.
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MOSCOW -- A former police officer was sentenced to death and nine other men, including a senior civil servant, were given long prison sentences yesterday for the murders of a leading opposition politician in Kazakhstan and two of his employees.
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A husband who killed his ill wife after she begged him to help her die was jailed for life today.
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The father and uncle of a woman who was brutally murdered for falling in love with the wrong man were sentenced to life in prison Friday for ordering the killing.
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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 US soldier was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of an Iraqi National Guardsman in May, the US military said Saturday.
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Authorities described the shooting of Andrei Kozlov, who had tried to combat money laundering, as a contract killing.
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A Cuban army sergeant who shot and killed a soldier and an officer in an attempt to hijack a plane to the United States has been sentenced to life in prison, a rights group said on Wednesday.
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Russia's ex-atomic energy minister Yevgeny Adamov is jailed for five and a half years for embezzling state funds.
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The former St. Louis Blues forward Mike Danton was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison Monday for trying to have his agent killed.
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A Georgia man gave the middle finger to a judge who sentenced him to life in prison plus 40 years for the shooting death of a Savannah debutante during a botched robbery.
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Russia's ex-atomic energy minister Yevgeny Adamov is found guilty of embezzling budget funds.
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Slobodan Milosevic's paramilitary commander and 11 other people were convicted Wednesday of assassinating Serbia's first democratically elected prime minister, Zoran Djindjic
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Two Syrians have been sentenced to  death and another two to life in prison for their part in an  April attack and gunbattle that killed four people in Damascus,  one of their lawyers said on Thursday.
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A condemned killer was executed Wednesday night for the 1996 fatal shooting of a man during a car theft.
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Two Russian interior ministry troops are convicted of the killing of three civilians in Chechnya.
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CHELYABINSK, Russia  - A Russian court on Tuesday   sentenced a conscript to four years in prison for abusing a   younger recruit so badly doctors had to amputate his legs and   genitals.