Two young white men, Perry Dean Ross and Joe Simpson, were eventually indicted, although charges against Mr. Simpson were dropped when he agreed to testify against Mr. Ross — who was given a suspended sentence on a murder conviction.
Appiah was given a life term for murder, along with Dale Green, then 17, and Lamarr Gordon, then 17.
He was given a life sentence for murdering a fellow worker, released on licence after 10 years and then given a whole-life sentence after killing his wife.
The spotlight on electronic monitoring comes a day after a 15-year-old boy - who was being tagged - was given a life sentence for murdering a student in a row over throwing conkers in north London.
A dentist whose church in Northern Ireland urged him to confess to a double murder was given a minimum 20-year prison sentence today.
Adams was given a life sentence for the murder but Morris's documentary showed, by exploring the testimony and the way the police put the case together, that he had been wrongly accused.
Ms Gu's aide, Zhang Xiaojun, who admitted helping her carry out the murder, was given a nine-year prison sentence.In this section Relations on the rocks Punishing the powerful Patriot games ReprintsIn Jiang Qing's case, the authorities wanted to use her trial to make clear that the days of Maoist excess were over.
In 1982 he was convicted of a string of sex attacks on young girls, and in 2001, while still in prison for these crimes, he was given a life sentence for the murder of Mary Gallacher, 17, who was raped and stabbed in Glasgow in 1978.
Hindley, who died in prison in November 2002 aged 60, was given a life sentence for the murders of Lesley Ann and Edward and for shielding Brady after John's murder.
Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, was given a suspended death sentence for murdering her former friend in Chongqing in 2011.
