Life term for 'chessboard' killer
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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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The âChessboard Killer,â who had hoped to become the most prolific murderer in post-Soviet Russian history, was convicted last week of murdering 48 people.
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Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64
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The Georgia parole board on Monday granted a 90-day stay of execution for a convicted police killer whose case had drawn pleas for clemency amid claims he might not be guilty.
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A Russian man who has confessed to killing 63 people with the goal of marking all 64 squares on the chessboard showed no remorse Monday as his murder trial wrapped up, mocking both prosecutors and his own lawyers.
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Bobby Frank Cherry, convicted of killing four black girls in a racially motivated bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963, died Thursday in prison. He was 74.
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A confessed serial killer was convicted of murder Wednesday in case brought by prosecutors in a desperate bid to keep him from getting out of prison in less than two years.
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Solicitor Pat Finucaneâs killer was jailed for minimum of 22 years at Belfast Crown Court today. Ken Barrett, 41, a police informer, was told by Mr Justice Weir that he had been involved in a cruel, callous
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When Gov. Ernie Fletcher signed a death warrant for a convicted killer this month, he may have done more than start the clock ticking on an execution. Some say Fletcher, a doctor, may have put his medical license at risk.
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MOSCOW (BBC News) - A court here has sentenced serial killer Alexander Pichushkin, known to the Russian media as the "Bittsa maniac", to life imprisonment. The Russian shop assistant was found guilty of 48 murders, which he once said he recorded on a chessboard. Most of the murders were committed over five years in Bittsa Park, in Moscow's southern suburbs.  Pichushkin has never denied the charges. He was also found guilty on three counts of attempted murder. Pichushkin began his 14-year killing spree in Moscow in 1992, and was arrested in June 2006. His victims were drowned in a sewer or bludgeoned to death with a hammer, investigators say. Pichushkin originally said he planned to carry out 64 killings, one for each square on a chessboard.
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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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Alexander Pichushkin marked his 48 victims off on squares of a chessboard.
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STOCKHOLM: The confessed killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh had his life sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court yesterday after he appealed for leniency saying he was mentally ill when he stabbed her.
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A criminal court on Friday sentenced a male nurse to life imprisonment for killing 22 elderly residents of nursing homes over a six-year period by smothering them or injecting them with tranquilizers.
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A Russian supermarket worker branded "the chessboard murderer" was found guilty on Wednesday of killing 48 people after he confessed in court that the first time he took a life was like falling in love.
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For Scott Peterson, ultimately there may be little difference between a death sentence and life in prison. In California, the chances are greater that a condemned inmate will die in prison than be executed by lethal injection.
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Bobby Fischer, the chess champion who made a name for himself by beating the Russians then turning his back on America - and the game - has died