Sentence examples for convicted for murder from inspiring English sources

And even though the DA's office has looked into convictions that are older than 1990 like that of David McCallum, who, after being convicted for murder in 1986, was recently freed a spokesperson told me that no CRU cases were lost in the flames.

"Her son had been convicted for murder," Yates said.

Mr Williams was sentenced to death in 1986 after being convicted for murder.

He reportedly confessed: "I had to murder people so I would be convicted for murder and given the death sentence.

The 220 inmates at Poissy, about 20 kilometers, or 12 miles, west of Paris, include some convicted for murder, drug and sex offences.

Murder has a low recidivism rate anyway and none of those convicted for murder or manslaughter as children have ever gone on to repeat that kind of offence.

The case followed the rearrest and trial, in 1994, of Byron De La Beckwith, who was finally convicted for murdering the civil rights activist Medgar Evers in 1963.

Based on an actual case, it tracked a cynical Chicago reporter (James Stewart) as he uncovered the facts necessary to free a man falsely convicted for murdering a cop in a speakeasy.

According to the Tampa Bay Times, Spenkelink, who was convicted for murdering his roommate, was given two shots of whiskey before taking his seat in the chair.

Nearly two decades ago, Buck was convicted for murdering his ex-girlfriend and another man in front of the woman's own children ― and Texas, as it often does, sought the death penalty for him.

Inspired by the first season, which examined whether Baltimore teenager Adnan Syed was wrongfully convicted for murdering his girlfriend based on a faulty case, the third season aims to look at the entire criminal justice system, according to Koenig.