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Va. Clears Innocent Man of Rapes After 27 Years

Thomas Haynesworth never stopped fighting

(Newser) - For 27 years, Thomas Haynesworth sat in prison, learning auto mechanics, welding, and masonry … and fighting to clear his name. That fight paid off yesterday, when a Virginia appeals court declared him innocent, acknowledging that he did not commit the three rapes of which he was convicted in 1984....

Austin Powers Thug Killed Cell Mate: Police

Joseph Son, who played Random Task, suspected in sex offender's murder

(Newser) - A jailbird California actor who played Doctor Evil's henchman in an Austin Powers film is suspected of killing his sex-offender cell mate, investigators have revealed. The 50-year-old victim was serving two years for failure to register as a sex offender. He was found dead in a cell in Wasco...

Cannibal Killer Gets Life
 Cannibal Killer Gets Life 
Jun 28, 2011 12:03 AM CDT

Cannibal Killer Gets Life

He confesses to eating flesh of one of two teen victims

(Newser) - A German identified only as "Jan O.," who admitted eating the flesh of one of his two teenage victims, has been sentenced to life in prison. The killer, 26, confessed to licking blood from the wound of a 14-year-old girl he murdered and eating her flesh. He had...

Chinese Man Gets Life for Skipping Tolls

Draconian sentence handed to Shi Jianfeng sparks uproar

(Newser) - A Chinese farmer who turned to hauling sand and gravel to make a living has been given a life sentence for allegedly dodging $556,000 in highway tolls. Prosecutors say Shi Jianfeng used fake license plates and documents to allow him and his hired drivers to avoid paying tolls during...

Five Somali Pirates Convicted
 Five Somali Pirates Convicted 
Nov 24, 2010 12:07 PM CST

Five Somali Pirates Convicted

In the first piracy trial in the US since the Civil War

(Newser) - Five Somali men accused of attacking a US Navy ship off Africa's coast were convicted on federal piracy charges today, in what experts said was the first trial of its kind since 1861. The verdict was handed down by a jury in US District Court in Norfolk, as the five...

Times Square Bomber Gets Life
 Times Square Bomber Gets Life 
Oct 5, 2010 9:50 AM CDT

Times Square Bomber Gets Life

Cops used replicate bomb blast to seek stiff sentence for Faisal Shahzad

(Newser) - The man who plotted to kill Americans by driving a homemade car bomb into Times Square and leaving it to explode has been sentenced to life in prison. A federal judge gave Faisal Shahzad a mandatory life prison term at his sentencing today in Manhattan federal court. An FBI video...

Lockerbie Bomber Could Live 10 More Years

Embarrassed doctor calls prognosis 'unusual'

(Newser) - The Libyan man convicted of 270 counts of murder for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and freed by Scotland in 2009 because he was dying of prostate cancer could live for 10 more years, the doctor whose opinion helped free him now says. Abdelbasat Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in...

8-Year-Old's Killer Gets Life
 8-Year-Old's Killer Gets Life 
TELLS MOM 'SHE DID NOT SUFFER'
Jun 14, 2010 1:59 PM CDT

8-Year-Old's Killer Gets Life

Melissa Huckaby denies sexually abusing Sandra Cantu

(Newser) - A California Sunday school teacher who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murdering an 8-year-old neighbor made a tearful apology to the victim's family today as she was sentenced to life in prison. "She did not suffer, and I did not sexually molest her," said Melissa Huckaby, who avoided...

Supreme Court Axes Life Terms for Juveniles

Kids in nonhomicide crimes must at least get chance at parole

(Newser) - The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that teens may not be locked up for life without chance of parole if they have not killed anyone, holding that the Constitution requires that young people serving life sentences must at least be considered for release. The court ruled in the case of...

Sunday School Teacher Pleads Guilty in Girl's Murder

Melissa Huckaby admits killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu

(Newser) - A California Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping, raping, and killing an 8-year-old playmate of her daughter, then stuffing the body in a suitcase, pleaded guilty today to murder. Melissa Huckaby, 29, entered the guilty plea in San Joaquin County Superior Court to a charge of first-degree murder with a...

Sex Offender Admits Pair of Teen Murders

California's John Gardner will serve 2 life sentences

(Newser) - Confirming suspicions that have swirled since his arrest for the murder of 17-year-old Chelsea King, John Gardner admitted yesterday to killing both King and 14-year-old Amber Dubois almost a year earlier. The San Diego district attorney won't seek the death penalty against Gardner, reports NBC San Diego , who had guided...

DC Sniper Apologizes to First Victim

Lee Boyd Malvo writes letter, is 'relieved' man is alive and well

(Newser) - Lee Boyd Malvo, the younger of the DC snipers, apologized to his first victim by letter this week. Malvo shot the Louisiana man in 2002 in what police figure was a test of loyalty to the older sniper, John Allen Muhammad. The pair slashed John Gaeta's tires in a mall...

Iowa Mom Gets Life for Slitting Son's Throat

Kehoe banned from contacting son who survived attack

(Newser) - An Iowa mother has been sentenced to life without parole for slitting her 2-year-old son's throat and leaving him to die. Michelle Kehoe, who expressed profound regret in court, also slashed her 7-year-old son's throat before attempting to kill herself. He survived and testified against his mother. A jury rejected...

Ark. Man Gets Life for TV Anchor's Murder

Killer spared death penalty in Pressly's slaying

(Newser) - An Arkansas man has been sentenced to life without parole for the savage rape and murder of Anne Pressly, a morning news anchor for CNN affiliate KATV. Pressley, 26, died 5 days after she was found beaten unconscious in her home last year. Curtis Lavelle Vance's defense team told the...

Teens Sentenced to Life: Cruel and Unusual?
 Teens Sentenced to Life: 
 Cruel and Unusual? 
SUPREME COURT DOCKET
Nov 8, 2009 11:05 AM CST

Teens Sentenced to Life: Cruel and Unusual?

High court will address sentences for kid convicts who didn't kill

(Newser) - Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13. Terrance Graham, implicated in armed robberies when he was 16 and 17, was given a life sentence by a judge who told the teenager he had thrown his life away....

Lifer Seeks Better Life on Death Row

Killer eyes amenities that come with capital punishment

(Newser) - Living on death row looks like a better deal than dying as a lifer, convicted killer Billy Joe Johnson told a California jury yesterday. "You get out of your confined cell a little more," said Johnson, whose trial has moved to the penalty phase after he was found...

Record 10% of US Convicts Serving Life

(Newser) - Almost 10% of prisoners incarcerated in the US are serving life sentences, an all-time high, the New York Times reports. In California, which maintains the nation’s highest prison population, that number is 20%, says a report from the Sentencing Project, a group that wants to eliminate life-without-parole sentences. Two-thirds...

Madoff's 'Prison Hell' Not So Hellish

But he is in the doghouse with Ruth

(Newser) - The New York Post got a little excited on today's front page, promising a look "Inside Madoff’s Prison Hell." But that turns out to be a bit of wishful thinking: “Some of the guys were talking about smacking him around a little, just to get the...

No Cushy 'Camp Fed' for Madoff
 No Cushy 'Camp Fed' for Madoff 
ANALYSIS
Jun 30, 2009 12:49 PM CDT

No Cushy 'Camp Fed' for Madoff

(Newser) - Bernard Madoff’s high profile and long sentence will likely land him in a medium- or high-security prison, Bloomberg reports. Though previous white-collar criminals have spent terms at federal prison “camps,” any sentence longer than 10 years makes an inmate ineligible for that cushy treatment. Insiders also say...

Madoff Gets the Max: 150 Years
 Madoff Gets the Max: 150 Years 
Jun 29, 2009 9:52 AM CDT

Madoff Gets the Max: 150 Years

(Newser) - A federal judge threw the book at Bernie Madoff today, sentencing him to 150 years in prison, the maximum allowed by law in the $65 billion scam. He called Madoff’s crimes “staggering,” and chided him for not doing all he could to help investigators. He added that...

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