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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Jury to weigh death penalty in carjack killing US serial killer set to die after court reverse Former U.S. analyst sentenced to 13 months in rare leak case Serbian crime boss acquitted in Croatia killing

Jury to weigh death penalty in carjack killing  Wednesday, Apr 02, 2014 08:29 PM PDT SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A man who could face the death penalty for killing a South Dakota hospice nurse as part of a plan to assassinate President Barack Obama has a history of mental illness and his life should be spared, his attorney argued Wednesday. Full Story	Top
US serial killer set to die after court reverse  Wednesday, Apr 02, 2014 07:03 PM PDT A US serial killer is set to die by lethal injection on Thursday after a federal appeals court overturned a lower court ruling which postponed the execution in the latest legal battle over the drugs used to carry out death sentences. Lawyers for Tommy Sells, who was convicted of murdering a 13-year-old girl in 1999 but who has claimed responsibility for dozens of killings, will mount a last-ditch appeal before the US Supreme Court on Thursday in a bid to halt the execution. Sells' execution was stayed earlier Wednesday along with the case of another convicted murderer after federal judge Vanessa Gilmore ordered authorities in Texas to provide more information about the origin of drugs to be used in their lethal injections. The other case, involving Mexican national Ramiro Hernandez, who killed his boss and raped his victim's wife, will also go before the Supreme Court on Thursday although his execution remains off the schedule. Full Story	Top
Former U.S. analyst sentenced to 13 months in rare leak case  Wednesday, Apr 02, 2014 11:48 AM PDT By David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge sentenced a former State Department analyst on Wednesday to 13 months in prison for sharing classified information about North Korea with a reporter in 2009 without authorization. Stephen Kim, 46, told U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly at a hearing that he took full responsibility for violating a law designed to protect national defense information and that he planned to restart his life after prison. "He is rightly being held accountable for his criminal conduct," Michael Harvey said in court. Since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, prosecutors have brought charges in eight cases for disclosing information to a newspaper, blog or other media outlet. Full Story	Top
Serbian crime boss acquitted in Croatia killing  Wednesday, Apr 02, 2014 08:29 AM PDT BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A court in Serbia has acquitted a well-known underworld figure and convicted two other suspects in the 2008 killing of a Croatian journalist who wrote about Balkan organized crime. Full Story	Top

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