Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning in her country on an adultery conviction could be hanged instead. Iranian authorities said today they were moving ahead with plans to execute the woman but are reconsidering what punishment to carry out. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is already in prison serving a ten-year sentence on a separate conviction for the mur…
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North Korea announces it has sentenced US citizen Kenneth Bae, aka Pae Jun-ho, to 15 years of hard labor. The announcement, from state news agency KCNA, said Pae Jun-ho, known in the US as Kenneth Bae, was tried on April 30. Kenneth Bae was held last year after entering North Korea as a tourist. Pyongyang said he was accused of anti-government crimes. The move comes amid high tensions between Nor…
…of this community, your victim’s families and this court.” Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota called the killings among the most gruesome in the history of the county, which in 1974 was the scene of the “Amityville Horror” slayings in which a man killed six members of his own family. Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney James Chalifoux said Thursday: ̶…
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…Berlusconi’s Mediaset group. The court handed Silvio Berlusconi a longer sentence than the three years and eight months requested by prosecutors. It ordered him and nine other defendants to pay 10 million euros in damages and banned him from holding public office for three years. Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to four years in jail for tax fraud Both the jail term and the ban would o…
…sought about 2 million euros in commission from a Finnish firm, Patria, in order to help it win a military supply contract in 2006. Under the 278 million-euro deal, Patria was to supply Slovenia with 135 armored personnel carriers. The deal was scrapped after the corruption allegations surfaced. Janez Jansa, the two-time prime minister of Slovenia, has been convicted of corruption and sentenced…
…dusky will be sentenced. Jerry Sandusky will likely spend the rest of his life in prison, given his age and serious nature of his convictions of which many carry mandatory minimum sentences of five or 10 years. Assuming Judge John Cleland gives him at least two years – the minimum threshold for a state prison sentence – Jerry Sandusky’s first stop will be the Camp Hill state prison nea…
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Guatemala’s former military leader Efrain Rios Montt has been found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity and a three-judge tribunal sentenced him to 80 years in prison. Retired General Efrain Rios Montt, 86, was convicted of ordering the deaths of 1,771 people of the Ixil Maya ethnic group during his time in office in 1982 and 1983. Survivors described horrific abuses committed by the a…
…ger of collapse ever since. Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaeda have been blamed for much of the recent violence in Iraq. The Iraqi government issued the warrant for Tariq al-Hashemi’s arrest on 19 December 2011, the day after the last US troops left the country. He fled first to the largely autonomous Kurdish north of the country, and from there to Qatar and on to Turkey. Prosecutors said T…
Gary Dobson and David Norris, the two men convicted of the racist murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993 after he was stabbed to death, will be sentenced later. Gary Dobson and David Norris were found guilty by an Old Bailey jury after a trial based on forensic evidence. The two men will be sentenced as juveniles because they were under 18 at the time of the attack, which happened in s…
Tetra Pack billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing has been sentenced after admitting preventing the lawful and decent burial of his wife, Eva Rausing. The body of Eva Rausing, 48, was discovered at the couple’s house in Belgravia, London, on 9 July. Hans Kristian Rausing, 49, was sentenced to 10 months in custody, suspended for two years, at Isleworth Crown Court. Judge Richard McGregor-Johnson…
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Mohammed al-Dahabi, Jordan’s former intelligence chief, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption. Mohammed al-Dahabi, who was head of the intelligence service from 2005 to 2008, was accused of embezzling public funds, money laundering and abuse of office. The court in Amman ordered him to repay nearly $30 million to the state. Jordan’s leaders have come under pressure i…
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Croatia’s former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader has be sentenced to 10 years in prison for taking bribes, in a case closely watched by the EU. Ivo Sanader, in office from 2003 to 2009, was convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes from a Hungarian energy company and an Austrian bank. The former prime minister denied wrongdoing at his trial. Croatia, which hopes to join the EU in July of next…
Chinese national Xiang Li has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in US for selling more than $100 million of pirated US software. Xiang Li is accused of stealing software from 200 US manufacturers and selling it for a fraction of their prices. He was arrested in the US Pacific territory of Saipan in June 2011 and pleaded guilty earlier this year. US officials have said that this is the first ti…
Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict’s ex-butler, has been found guilty of stealing confidential papers from him and sentenced to 18 months in jail. Prosecutors had called for a three-year sentence but it was reduced because of “mitigating circumstances”. Speaking before the verdict, Paolo Gabriele said he acted out of love for the Church and did not see himself as a thief. Paolo Gabri…
Liu Hui, the brother-in-law of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, has been sentenced to 11 years in jail on fraud charges by a court in China. The lawyer defending Liu Hui said the jail term was out of all proportion to the alleged offence. He said it should have been treated as a civil dispute, not a criminal matter. Liu Xiaobo was already in jail when he won the Nobel Prize in 2010…
…n. She started her career with Grammy-award winning hip-hop group Fugees alongside Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel. Lauryn Hill released her acclaimed solo debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, in 1998, which won five Grammy awards and sold more than 19 million copies worldwide. Related search articles:ben wilson kiler at filmalter sells mug and bean…
A court in Brazil has sentenced 23 police officers each to 156 years in jail for involvement in notorious 1992 Carandiru prison massacre in Sao Paulo. The policemen were convicted of killing 13 inmates in the city’s Carandiru jail during an operation to end a revolt. In all, 111 prisoners died, and prosecutors argued that most of them were shot dead at close range. The officers’ lawye…
Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, has been sentenced to 50 years in jail by a UN-backed war crimes court. Last month Charles Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting rebels in Sierra Leone during the 1991-2002 civil war. Special Court for Sierra Leone judges said the sentence reflected his status as head of state at the time and his betrayal of public trust. Charles Taylor, 6…
…in 2009, has been sentenced to death in Japan The case has gained notoriety in Japan as the “Black Widow” case, named after the female spider that eats its partner after mating. More than 1,000 people queued up for fewer than 50 seats at the court to hear the verdict. “The defendant repeatedly committed quite serious crimes that claimed the lives of three people,” the pres…
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Wang Lijun, the ex-police chief at the heart of China’s biggest political scandal in years, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail. Wang Lijun was jailed for ”bending the law for selfish ends, defection, abuse of power and bribetaking”, Xinhua said. His flight in February to a US consulate led to the downfall of his ex-boss, top politician Bo Xilai. Bo Xilai’s wife, Gu Kai…
…e with assault rifles and a shotgun at an unarmed family walking on the bridge and at a man fleeing the scene. A New Orleans couple, their daughter, and their nephew, were wounded and a family friend, 17-year-old James Brissette, was killed. Ronald Madison, 40, who had mental and physical disabilities, also died on the bridge. He was shot in the back with a shotgun as he ran away. It took five yea…
Tycoon Allen Stanford has been sentenced to 110 years in jail for operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of more than $7 billion. The scheme was described as one of the largest in US history. In court, Allen Stanford denied any guilt, telling the judge at his sentencing hearing: “I did not defraud anybody.” Allen Stanford, a Texan banker, rose to prominence outside the US w…
…of his attacks. Mohamad Hadi Hamed, 21, who is now in a wheelchair, told the court how his left arm and his left leg were amputated after he was shot by Anders Breivik. Another survivor, Einar Bardal, 17, described how he was trying to escape when he heard a loud bang, followed by a loud beeping noise in his head. Related search articles:glenn rogers serial killer verdict in trayvon martin case…
Four people have been sentenced to death in Iran for their roles in the country’s biggest-ever bank fraud scandal. Two other defendants received life sentences, while 33 more will spend up to 25 years in jail, the chief prosecutor was quoted as saying. The scandal involved forged documents reportedly used by an investment company to secure loans worth $2.6 billion. President Mahmoud Ahmadin…
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