The state has been riveted by the trial of Steven J. Hayes, who was convicted last month for participating in a home invasion in Cheshire, in which a woman and her two daughters were killed.
Ali Cattrell Last month, 60 people – including seven members of one family – were convicted of participating in a crash-for-cash insurance fraud of such magnitude that motorists in County Durham, where the scam was based, had their insurance premiums bumped up by £100.
An Iranian court on Monday confirmed the death sentences for four people convicted of participating in a $2.6 billion embezzlement scheme, the biggest fraud in Iran's history.
BEIJING — A Chinese court has handed down death sentences for five people convicted of participating in the ethnic violence in July that killed nearly 200 people in the far western region of Xinjiang, the authorities there announced Thursday.
NEW DELHI — Prosecutors requested the death penalty on Wednesday for four men convicted of participating in the rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in December, calling the crime "a case of extreme depravity" and arguing that the public would be outraged if the men were not hanged.
BEIJING — China said Wednesday that judicial authorities in Tibet had imposed prison terms for 21 additional people convicted of participating in the deadly riots last March, bringing the total number punished for the mayhem to 76.
In fact, the United States Agency for International Development has selected prisoners convicted of participating in the genocide as a target group to receive counseling and testing as they return to the community.
Porter's uncle, Alvis Porter, a former Logan County circuit clerk, was recently convicted of participating in a wide-ranging kickback scheme for mining contracts Logan County is coal country.
In late February, an Orange County Superior Court judge ordered a new trial for Crawford's client Henry Rodriguez, 39, who was convicted of participating in the murder of a 22-year-old woman.
