US man sentenced to die for murder of pregnant wife, unborn child
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LOS ANGELES : A US jury on Monday sentenced a salesman to death for murdering his pregnant wife and their unborn child, climaxing a soap-operatic case that gripped America for two years.
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A German court jailed a woman for 15 years for killing eight of her newborn babies in the worst case of infanticide in the country&#039;s criminal history.
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A man accused of the serial murders of seven women was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole in the first of a series of scheduled trials.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Scott Peterson now faces life in prison or death by lethal injection. A California jury has convicted him of first-degree murder for killing his pregnant wife and dumping her body in the San Francisco Bay.
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A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but with time served could be released on probation in a little more than two months.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 9 -- Calling him &quot;the worst kind of monster&quot; and undeserving of sympathy, a prosecutor urged jurors to sentence Scott Peterson to death for murdering his pregnant wife before the panel began deciding his punishment Thursday.
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A man who tried to pin his wife's brutal slaying on their 12-year-old daughter was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for first-degree murder.
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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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A 46-year-old man is jailed for the manslaughter of his two-month-old son.
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A US jury recommends the death penalty for a woman who killed an expectant mother and cut out her baby.
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An Iranian man is sentenced to death for his role in the serial killings of 17 children and three adults.
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A California jury recommended that Scott Peterson receive the death penalty for the murder of his 27- year-old pregnant wife, Laci, and for the murder of his unborn son, Conner.
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A US soldier has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for the murder of an Iraqi National Guard soldier near Tikrit in May, the US military said in a statement.
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A Florida judge on Friday sentenced a man to death for kidnapping, raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl who was snatched from her bed and buried alive in a plastic garbage bag.
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A man, his estranged wife and members of her family were among the five people killed in what authorities believe was a murder-suicide. The man had been released Tuesday on bond after his wife accused him of kidnap and rape.
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A 33-year-old man is handed a life sentence after admitting murdering his seven-week-old baby daughter.
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A US soldier is expected to be sentenced today after being found guilty of murder for shooting a severely wounded Iraqi civilian, while the US army pressed its sole supplier of armoured Humvees to increase production amid a growing domestic controversy