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Ethiopia strikes down appeal by imprisoned Canadian
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | about 24 hours ago
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Family and supporters of Canadian citizen Bashir Makhtal will once again turn to Ottawa to seek his freedom after the supreme court of Ethiopia upheld his conviction and life sentence for terrorist activities. Family and supporters of Makhtal, who say...
Tags: Ethiopian, life sentence, Bashir Makhtal, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ogaden, Law Crime, Ogaden National Liberation Front, Politics, Somali Region, African Union member states, Islamic Courts Union, Horn of Africa, African countries, Least Developed Countries
Life sentence for brutal double murder by Bulgarian in Austria
Korneuburg :: Austria | 3 days ago
Credibility The court case was launched several days ago, but on November 30 the prosecution decided that in light of the forensics investigation, DNA evidence and the 9mm cartridges found on the scene, similar to the ones found in the man's house in Bulgaria by...
Tags: Tsvetan Rangelov, Austria, Bulgaria, double murdered, Pahfurt, life sentence, Korneuburg, Law Crime
Prosecutor: Jail U.S. student for life
Perugia :: Italy | 14 days ago
Credibility Amanda Knox , the U.S. college student charged with killing her housemate, deserves a life sentence, an Italian prosecutor said Saturday. Giuliano Mignini called Knox "narcissistic, aggressive, manipulative and theatrical" in his closing argument to...
Tags: Amanda Knox, Meredith Kercher, Raffaele Sollecito, Italy, life sentence, Perugia, American, U.S, Murder of Meredith Kercher, Murders, Law Crime, Kercher
Boxer shorts burglar gets two life sentences, plus 30 years
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility A burglar caught in his boxer shorts as he fled a Naples Park home was sentenced today to two-consecutive life prison terms followed by 30 years. Collier Circuit Judge Fred Hardt imposed the life sentences on Jean Jean Baptiste of Naples Park for two...
Tags: life sentence, Jean Jean Baptiste, Philadelphia, Felony, Criminal law, Crimes, Burglary, Law Crime, Religion Belief, Baptiste
Golf club killer faces life sentence
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 15 days ago
Credibility Colin Gourlay, 48, attacked Daniel Hambleton, 19, outside their homes in Dalkeith, Midlothian. The killer's son, Dean Gourlay, 25, had challenged Mr Hambleton to a fight...At the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday, Gourlay, of Kippielaw Park, Mayfield,...
Tags: Mr Hambleton, golf club, Colin Gourlay, life sentence, Dean Gourlay, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Law Crime
Man gets life sentence in Little Rock television anchor's slaying
Little Rock :: AR :: USA | 22 days ago
Credibility Ark. – The man convicted of killing Little Rock television personality Anne Pressly has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. The jury that convicted Curtis Vance, 29, of capital murder, rape and burglary in last year's attack at Pressly's...
Tags: Curtis Lavelle Vance, Curtis Vance, death penalty, tv anchor, man convicted, anchor killing, life sentence, Little Rock, Law Crime, Jury, Social Issues, Murders, Murder of Anne Pressly, Legal procedure, KATV, Burglary, Vance Astrovik, Presley, Criminal law, Murder
Tories want multiple killers to face real life terms
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility The federal government plans to bring in legislation to allow judges to impose what are essentially consecutive life sentences for multiple murderers. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said Wednesday he wants to ensure that serial killers or repeat killers...
Tags: Rob Nicholson, serial killer, justice minister, life sentence, consecutive life, minister rob, multiple murders
Ontario wind power plans face legal challenge
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Melissa Todorovic, who was handed a life sentence for orchestrating the stabbing death of Toronto teen Stefanie Rengel, has filed for an appeal of her first-degree murder conviction and sentence. A farmer in Prince Edward County is taking the Ontario...
Tags: Toronto, Stefanie Rengel, Melissa Todorovic, degree murder, murder conviction, toronto teen, teen stefanie, stabbing death, life sentence
Murder In Lancaster County: An Update
Michael Roseboro was officially sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, at his sentencing hearing on September 25, 2009. An appeal is sure to come, but for now, the case is over. We can hope and pray that there might be the first steps...
Tags: Roseboro murder, life sentence
Crime › Life sentence given for 1st time under lay jury system
Wakayama :: Japan | 2 months ago
Credibility The Wakayama District Court on Wednesday handed down a life sentence to a man convicted of killing a woman in a murder-robbery case, the first life sentence and the heaviest so far among court decisions in Japan’s lay jury trials that began last month.
Tags: lay jury, life sentence, jury trial, Japan, Wakayama
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