Death sentence for US wife killer
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A California jury has recommended that a man who murdered his wife and their unborn son should be executed. Scott Peterson, 32, reported his wife Laci missing on Christmas Eve, 2002.
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An Australian man was convicted on  Saturday of killing his wife and then hiding her body in a  metal drum in his garage for 23 years.
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Jurors convict a US woman who strangled an expectant mother and cut the baby from her womb with a knife.
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A US man is convicted of murdering a nine-year-old girl in a case that sparked a national drive on sex crimes.
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A California jury sentenced Scott Peterson today to death by injection for murdering his pregnant wife two years ago.
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Ending a trial that has gripped America for nearly two years, the jury that convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his wife and unborn baby has recommended he be executed for the crimes.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.  - A California jury on  Monday recommended the death sentence for Scott Peterson for  killing his wife and unborn son after a sensational trial that  riveted much of the country.
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A man who admitted killing his wife by pouring petrol over her and setting her alight is jailed for life.
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The man who killed former Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh will serve his life sentence in prison, the Swedish Supreme Court has ruled.
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A 70-year-old British woman was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison on Wednesday for the murder of her son's wife, whom she blamed for bringing shame on her Sikh family by seeking a divorce.
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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 mother-of-five will serve 15 months for killing her husband after a judge heard of the "frightening" abuse she suffered
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A former Nottinghamshire woman marries a prisoner on death row in the United States.
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A jury hears how a husband arranged for his wife to be murdered by his secret S&M lover, who stabbed her 16 times.
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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 woman guilty of murdering her husband will "serve every day of her 20-year sentence," a judge says.
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A bride who stabbed her husband a week after their honeymoon is found guilty of manslaughter.