Baby-Killer Gets 23 Years Posted: 9 months ago by punthe
A Mount Airy man will spend 23 years in prison for fatally shaking his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son to death in February 2006 while trying to stop the infant from crying.
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Ex-NHL Player Rob Ramage Gets 4 Years In Prison Posted: 9 months ago by punthe
Former NHL player Rob Ramage was sentenced to four years in prison for a 2003 crash that killed ex-Chicago Blackhawks player Keith Magnuson.
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Indian freed after 35 years' jail Posted: 7 months ago by topofall
The Pakistani government has released from jail an Indian man who had spent 35 years on death row.
Not a single visitor in that time!
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Man cleared after 18 years in prison Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A man who remained in prison for 18 years after being wrongly convicted of child rape was released Tuesday after new DNA testing cleared him of the crime.
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Woman gets 7 years in Haitian slavery case Posted: 5 months ago by jhordie
A former teacher was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison for forcing a Haitian girl to work as a slave for years, each day of the week, in her South Florida home.
Apparently the woman still refuses to admit she did anything wrong.
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High-resolution images of Death Row at San Quentin Posted: 11 months ago by 2manyusernames
Large images, 3000x2000 or so of death row at San Quentin state prison in California
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Man gets at least 38 years for murder of woman found burning under bridge. Posted: 10 months ago by muppet
A Marion County judge sentenced a man to at least 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman whose body was found burning under a Salem bridge in 2006.
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Woman boards the wrong bus and gets lost for 25 years Posted: 2 years ago by BrownTrout
A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. There were some language barriers and mistaken identity issues but hey... she should have been back home in 12 years tops!
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Man jailed for faking his death Posted: 4 months ago by bevissimo
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore man was jailed for three years after he faked his own death in a civil war shoot-out in Sri Lanka in 1987 to escape his creditors and claim S$331,341 ($243,600) in insurance money, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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50 years for a crime that never was Posted: 6 months ago by Moe
He went to an asylum for the criminally insane and spent 50 years there. There was just one problem. His father, whom he was thought to have killed, was still alive.
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FAther Who Rapes Daughter and Has 7 Kids Gets ONLY 15 Years Posted: 5 months ago by deepcleanfun
Austrian authorities have now confirmed that 73-year-old Joseph Fritzl, who fathered seven children by the daughter he kept in a dungeon and repeatedly raped for 24 years, will get maximum of 15 years
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A Free Man for 30 Years, Fugitive Faces Prison Posted: 7 months ago by dollyllama
For the last 31 years, Charles Free has lived an ordinary life. He fell in love, married and raised two children. He spent more than 20 years in the Las Vegas construction business, working his way up to project manager. His family calls him a caring man, a model citizen.
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Teenage girl facing the death sentence in Saudi Arabia for accidental death of infant Posted: 1 year ago by super
The 17-year-old girl was in charge of taking care of 10 children along with other household chores at the time of the accidental death of a 4-month-old infant. She is sentenced to be beheaded unless an appeal is filed by July 16Th.
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Man who took his family to a remote Alaskan island to raise them according to the Bible sentenced to 14 years Posted: 10 months ago by kamaloo
A man who called himself "Papa Pilgrim" and took his family far from civilization to raise them according to his interpretation of the Bible was sentenced to 14 years in prison because, of course, he couldn't keep his hand off his daughter.
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Catholic Priest Sentenced to Prison for Having Sex With Female Inmates Posted: 5 months ago by barwench
A Roman Catholic priest who had sex with two inmates while working as a chaplain at a women's prison was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison.
Couldn't help but read the priest's name as Inmate
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Director John McTiernan gets 4 months in prison Posted: 1 year ago by punthe
Director John McTiernan today was sentenced to four months in federal prison for lying to the FBI about hiring indicted private investigator Anthony Pellicano to wiretap a veteran film producer seven years ago.
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Lawyer gets 12 years in mistaken slaying Posted: 1 year ago by moe
A lawyer who stabbed his neighbor to death because he thought the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter.
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US soldier gets 18 years for Iraq murder Posted: 2 years ago by teaya21
A US soldier has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering three detainees during a raid on a suspected al-Qaeda compound in Iraq last year.
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Then and Now - 100 Years Ago to Today Posted: 9 months ago by muppet
A collection of photos comparing a place about 100 years ago to the same place today
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Man phishes 101 years in federal prison Posted: 2 years ago by secretsather
Jeffery Brett Goodin has been convicted of violating the Can-spam act of 2003 and could serve up to 101 years in prison.. if he lives that long.
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Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
China houses several early-human (Paleolithic) archaeological sites along the Nihewan Basin near Mongolia, some with artifacts that date back about 1 million years ago.
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