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...SENTENCED. CHARLES SOBHRAJ, 60, to life in prison for the murder of an American tourist in 1975; in Kathmandu, Nepal. Also known as the "Serpent" and the "Bikini Killer," the half-Indian, half-Vietnamese Sobhraj is alleged to be one of Asia's deadliest serial killers, preying on Western backpackers on the hippie circuit in the 1970s. Brilliant, charming and fluent in seven languages, he taunted police with their inability to catch or keep him, breaking out of jail four times. He is accused of killing another backpacker in Nepal, as well as five more in Thailand, two in India...
...blatantly mistreat their women and feel no remorse or shame. How can they kill their mothers, sisters, wives and girlfriends with such ferocity? Don't they see their women suffering? Do they not understand that for their country to have a future, men and women need to work together? Murder is wrong, regardless of what a woman has done or not done. Shirley Jones-Luke Boston The Moral of Martha Martha Stewart's prison sentence for conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal investigators is a stark reminder that if we fail to obey...
When a German appeals court last March overturned the only conviction against a suspected Sept. 11 conspirator, the court blamed the U.S. for failing to allow testimony from terrorists in its custody. Now Mounir el-Motassadeq - a Moroccan engineering student in Hamburg charged with being an accessory to murder in the 9/11 attacks and supporting a terrorist organization - is on trial again. And last week, the U.S. unexpectedly turned over intelligence reports based on questioning of two top al-Qaeda operatives. It was a victory for the Germans - except that the testimony seems to exonerate el-Motassadeq. Ramzi Binalshibh...
...James Barney Hubbard, the oldest man executed in the U.S. since 1941, put to death in Alabama for a 1977 murder-robbery...
CHARGED. LUIS ECHEVARRIA, 82, former Mexican President; with murder in the killing of at least 25 student protesters in 1971. It is the first criminal charge against a former Mexican President and stems from the violent suppression of antigovernment protesters in the 1970s. A Mexican judge on Saturday refused to issue an arrest warrant, but prosecutors say they will appeal...