Russia's "chessboard killer" given life in prison
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Russia's "chessboard murderer" was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for killing 48 people, after the supermarket worker told a court last week he felt like God as he decided whether his victims should live or die.
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A court in Thailand sentences a local man to death for the murder of two Russians in Pattaya in February.
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The confessed killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh had his life jail sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court Thursday after he appealed for leniency saying he was mentally ill when he stabbed her.
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A Moscow jury convicted a man of 48 murders that he recorded on a chessboard, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday.
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A man who injured nine people in a knife attack at a Moscow synagogue was sentenced to 16 years in prison after a second trial, Russian news agencies reported.
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Russia's "chessboard murderer" was  sentenced to life in prison on Monday for killing 48 people,  after the supermarket worker told a court last week he felt  like God as he decided whether his victims should live or die.
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Two Aryan Brotherhood leaders and a third member of the infamous prison gang, who were found guilty in July of murder and other charges, were sentenced on Tuesday to multiple life terms.
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A Russian court sentenced  the only surviving Beslan hostage-taker to life in prison on  Friday for his part in the bloody 2004 school siege that killed  331 people.
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A convicted serial killer was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the 1974 slaying of a 19-year-old Western Michigan University student.
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The Russian supermarket worker found guilty of murdering 48 people told his trial on Thursday he felt like God as he decided if his victims should live or die.
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A man is jailed for 15 years after admitting the murder of a man who died five months after being beaten.
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A Russian physicist convicted of spying for China was given a 14-year prison sentence Wednesday in a trial that rights advocates denounced as part of a campaign of intimidation against scholars by Russia's resurgent KGB successor agency.
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A Russian court has sentenced a physicist Valentin Danilov to 14 years in a Siberian prison for passing space secrets to China. Danilov, 53, a professor at Krasnoyarsk
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Aleksandr Y. Pichushkin was convicted last week of murdering 48 people and trying to kill three others. The Russian news media had dubbed him the Chessboard Killer.
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The convicted murderer of a millionaire banker received the maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison Tuesday at an emotional hearing where the victim's two children denounced the killer for stealing their childhoods.
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Russian shop assistant Alexander Pichushkin is found guilty of 48 murders which he recorded on a chessboard.
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MOSCOW (BBC News) - A court here has sentenced serial killer Alexander Pichushkin, known to the Russian media as the "Bittsa maniac", to life imprisonment. The Russian shop assistant was found guilty of 48 murders, which he once said he recorded on a chessboard. Most of the murders were committed over five years in Bittsa Park, in Moscow's southern suburbs.  Pichushkin has never denied the charges. He was also found guilty on three counts of attempted murder. Pichushkin began his 14-year killing spree in Moscow in 1992, and was arrested in June 2006. His victims were drowned in a sewer or bludgeoned to death with a hammer, investigators say. Pichushkin originally said he planned to carry out 64 killings, one for each square on a chessboard.