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Carlos the Jackal sentenced to life, again
Thu,15 Dec 2011 07:19 PM PST
AP - Carlos the Jackal, the flamboyant Venezuelan who symbolized Cold War terrorism, was sentenced to life in prison — again — in a Paris trial that ended late Thursday with him rallying for revolution and weeping for Moammar Gadhafi. Full Story | Top |
Gaddafi's death may be war crime: ICC prosecutor
Thu,15 Dec 2011 06:43 PM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - The death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was captured and killed by rebels in October, may have been a war crime, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Thursday. "I think the way in which Mr Gaddafi was killed creates suspicions of ... war crimes," ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told reporters. "I think that's a very important issue," he said. "We are raising this concern to the national authorities and they are preparing a plan to have a comprehensive strategy to investigate all these crimes. ...
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Carlos the Jackal sentenced to life in prison
Thu,15 Dec 2011 04:37 PM PST
AFP -  A French court Thursday sentenced the notorious Venezuelan militant known as Carlos the Jackal to life in prison, with a minimum of 18 years before parole, for four deadly attacks in France in the 1980s.
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Chicago Bears player arrested on drug charge
Thu,15 Dec 2011 04:32 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chicago Bears wide receiver Samuel Hurd has been arrested and charged with conspiracy to distribute large quantities of cocaine and marijuana, U.S. authorities said on Thursday. Full Story | Top |
France hands Carlos the Jackal another life prison term
Thu,15 Dec 2011 04:03 PM PST
Reuters -  PARIS (Reuters) - A French court sentenced flamboyant Marxist militant Carlos the Jackal to another life prison term on Thursday for bomb attacks that killed 11 people nearly three decades ago. The Venezuelan defendant, 62, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, has been locked up in France for almost 20 years serving a life sentence in a separate case for killing two police officers and an informant in Paris in 1975. Sentencing Ramirez to an additional life term, the special terrorism court in Paris made up of seven magistrates said he should serve a minimum of 18 years in jail. ...
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France hands Carlos the Jackal another life prison term
Thu,15 Dec 2011 03:46 PM PST
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - A French court sentenced flamboyant Marxist militant Carlos the Jackal to another life prison term on Thursday for bomb attacks that killed 11 people nearly three decades ago. The Venezuelan defendant, 62, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, has been locked up in France for almost 20 years serving a life sentence in a separate case for killing two police officers and an informant in Paris in 1975. Sentencing Ramirez to an additional life term, the special terrorism court in Paris made up of seven magistrates said he should serve a minimum of 18 years in jail. ...
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Bears' Hurd arrested in sting operation
Thu,15 Dec 2011 03:17 PM PST
AFP - Chicago Bears player Sam Hurd was arrested on Wednesday on charges of drug dealing after a sting operation allegedly caught him trying to walk out of a restaurant with a kilogram of cocaine. Full Story | Top |
Retired professor arrested in Oklahoma child porn case
Thu,15 Dec 2011 03:05 PM PST
Reuters - OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Police on Thursday arrested a retired college professor in Pennsylvania on charges he conspired with an Oklahoma elementary school teacher to take lewd photos of third- and fourth-grade girls. Gary Joseph Doby, 65, was arrested at his home in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, where he had been a professor of early childhood development at Bloomsburg University, authorities said. He also taught for two years at Oklahoma Baptist University in the mid-1980s. ... Full Story | Top |
Study finds death penalty use in decline
Thu,15 Dec 2011 02:24 PM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Use of the death penalty has fallen to its lowest level since capital punishment was reinstated in the United States in 1976, according to a report released on Thursday by a nonprofit that tracks death penalty data. The Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center reported a 75 percent drop in death sentences since 1996. Through mid-December, there were 78 new death sentences in 2011, compared to 112 a year earlier. It is the first time the number has dropped below 100 in a single year since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment, the group said. ...
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Tea Party Patriots co-founder arrested in New York
Thu,15 Dec 2011 02:19 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A co-founder of the conservative Tea Party Patriots group was arrested at a New York airport on Thursday for gun possession, authorities said. Mark Meckler, 49, was charged with illegally traveling with a pistol after he was arrested at 5.30 a.m. at LaGuardia airport, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement. Meckler presented a locked gun box, which contained a pistol and 19 cartridges, at a Delta Airlines counter as he checked in for a flight. He has a California permit to carry the gun but not a New York state permit, authorities said. ... Full Story | Top |
Somali pirates sentenced to life in prison
Thu,15 Dec 2011 01:40 PM PST
AP - A former Somali police officer and an electrician whose job it was to bless their expedition were sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for their roles in the hijacking of a yacht that left all four Americans on board dead. Full Story | Top |
UK crime reporter arrested in corruption inquiry
Thu,15 Dec 2011 11:58 AM PST
AP - The former crime editor for the News of the World tabloid was arrested Thursday in Britain's phone hacking scandal, and authorities announced that CNN journalist Piers Morgan would appear before the U.K.'s media ethics inquiry. Full Story | Top |
British consultant found guilty of insider trading
Thu,15 Dec 2011 10:16 AM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Management consultant Rupinder Sidhu was found guilty of 22 counts of insider dealing and sentenced to two years in prison by a London court on Thursday. The Financial Services Authority said Sidhu, with Anjam Ahmad, an ex-hedge fund trader and risk manager at AKO Capital, engaged in insider dealing in 18 UK and European shares between May and August of 2009. Ahmad told his associate his trading plans, allowing Sidhu to place bets ahead of AKO making him a profit of around 524,000 pounds, the FSA said. ... Full Story | Top |
Death penalty cases drop sharply in US
Thu,15 Dec 2011 08:32 AM PST
AFP - The number of death sentences in the United States in 2011 fell well below 100 for the first time in more than three decades, reflecting a sharp decline in public support for judicial executions, a new report said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
Why the death penalty is at historic low in the US
Thu,15 Dec 2011 07:10 AM PST
Christian Science Monitor - Concerns about the racial fairness, costs, and growing numbers of life-without-parole sentences have all played a role in a steep decline in the number of executions and death penalty sentences in the US this year, legal analysts say. Full Story | Top |
Study finds death penalty use in decline
Wed,14 Dec 2011 09:09 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Use of the death penalty has fallen to its lowest level since capital punishment was reinstated in the United States in 1976, according to a report released on Thursday by a nonprofit that tracks death penalty data. The Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center reported a 75 percent drop in death sentences since 1996. Through mid-December, there were 78 new death sentences in 2011, compared to 112 a year earlier. It is the first time the number has dropped below 100 in a single year since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment, the group said. ... Full Story | Top |
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