Sentence examples for convicted of murders from inspiring English sources
The gangs protected their corners with guns, and dozens were convicted of murders in Manhattan courts in the 1990s.
The ruling Tuesday came in a case initiated by three men, all convicted of murders and given "whole-life tariffs" because of the gravity of their crimes.
At least seven of them were subsequently convicted of murders committed at a time they should still have been in jail.
The country's highest court has upheld the death sentences of seven people in the far western region of Xinjiang who were convicted of murders and robberies aimed at raising money for a terrorist plot, state media reported Wednesday.
Mr. Massie, convicted of murders in 1965 and 1979, had abandoned his own appeals to protest the slow pace of the state's death row, and his last words were, "Forgiveness: giving up all hope for a better past".
Under the new law, those convicted of murders, sex crimes and burglaries would be required to surrender a swab sample taken from the mouth, although those persons convicted of shoplifting, drunken driving and less serious offenses would not be tested.
Two years later a petty criminal Christer Pettersson was convicted of murder, but his conviction was quashed.
Duddy was convicted of murdering PC Geoffrey Fox, 41.
