Mobster Sentenced in Okla. Man's Slaying
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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 man who shot his wife to death because she wanted to leave him was executed Wednesday, the first Ohio inmate put to death using new injection guidelines adopted because the last execution was plagued with problems.
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An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced to death Ali Hassan al-Majeed, Saddam Hussein's cousin and once one of the most feared men in Iraq, for orchestrating the genocide of tens of thousands of ethnic Kurds.
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A former Ku Klux Klansman is jailed for life in the US for his role in the abduction and murder of two black teenagers.
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A motorist who killed a Super Bowl reveler when he drove his sport-utility vehicle into a crowd celebrating the New England Patriots' 2004 championship was sentenced in Boston yesterday to six to eight years in prison.
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A 57-year-old woman was in jail in Sicily last night accused of handing over her son to the mafia to be murdered.
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A man convicted of murdering the manager of a topless bar 27 years ago was executed by injection Wednesday, appearing to grimace before dying 34 minutes after receiving the first dose of chemicals.
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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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A US marine is sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in the murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdaniya.
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A lawyer who stabbed his neighbor to death because he thought the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man convicted of a  1992 murder was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday despite  questions about the evidence against him and pleas from the  family of his presumed victim to spare his life.
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Mike Danton was sentenced yesterday to 7 1/2 years in prison for trying to have his agent killed. Danton said nothing in East St. Louis, Ill.
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A Palestinian man who waved blood-stained hands at a cheering mob has been jailed for life for killing an Israeli soldier four years ago.
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An escaped convict who admitted killing a New York state trooper and wounding two others during the largest manhunt in state history was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole.
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NORMAN, Okla. - A prison inmate in Cleveland County is accused of stabbing another prisoner with a sharpened pork chop bone. Lexington Correctional Center inmate Erenesto Hernanced-Rosales, 39, was charged Wednesday with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
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A man convicted of murder during a  $15 robbery a decade ago was executed in Ohio on Wednesday, the  seventh in the state this year.
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A notorious crack kingpin with ties to the hip-hop industry was convicted Thursday in a federal death penalty case for paying $50,000 to have two rivals gunned down in 2001.