Evangelist Who Raped Young Girls Gets A Stiff 175 Year Sentence

Evangelist Tony Alamo Sentenced To 175 Years The court stood firm on Friday the 13th sentencing evangelist Tony Alamo to 175 years. Even with Tony Alamos’ age currently at 75 years this U.S. federal Judge stood firm in his sentencing calculations. His defense used an...

Costa Rican Ex-President Convicted in Historic Trial

Costa Rican Ex-president Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier (1990-1994), was found guilty of peculation in what was known as the Caja-Fischel case, which culminated in the largest corruption scandal and the first...

Poland Enforces Chemical Castration Of Sex Offenders

Poland is likely to become the first European country to force chemical castration of all sex offenders deemed a risk to others, reports the Telegraph. The new Polish law will increase jail terms for paedophilia and incest, and make any attempt to justify paedophilia...

Melvin Blevins Jailed For Forcing 18-Month Niece To Smoke Weed

Melvin Blevins, 19 years old, has been arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison for video taping himself forcing his 18 month old niece to smoke marijana. The video tape was found inside a camera at a pawn shop in Ohio. Blevins is shown giving the little girl a glass...

Vietnam massacre soldier 'sorry'

" The US army officer convicted for his part in the notorious My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War has offered his first public apology, a US report says. "There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel...

Rapper Corey 'C-Murder' Miller Convicted Of Second-Degree Murder

Rapper Corey "C-Murder" Miller has been convicted for the second time of killing a 16-year-old fan, Steve Thomas, in a 2002 nightclub shooting in Louisiana. The first conviction in 2003 was overturned after it was...

Bill Clinton Headed to North Korea

UPDATE: "Clinton landed in Pyongyang in an unmarked jet Tuesday and was greeted at the airport by North Korean officials, including chief nuclear negotiator Kim Kye Gwan and vice parliamentary speaker Yang Hyong...

Accountant faces jail for hurling acid over lawyers

" An accountant was facing an indefinite jail sentence today after throwing hydrochloric acid over three High Court lawyers. Ashok Mahajan, 55, who has a history of courtroom violence, launched his furious attack...

Madoff sentenced to 150 years for Ponzi Scheme

Update: 29 June 2009 12:28 PM EDT Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison for Wall Street's biggest Ponzi Scheme."Historic swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison [today] for a fraud so...

Jailed in United Arab Emirates for having sex with boss

" The daughter of a British engineer has been jailed in the United Arab Emirates after being accused of sleeping with her boss. Roxanne Hillier is serving a three-month sentence following her arrest at a dive...

US Journalists Laura Ling & Euna Lee get 12 Years Hard Labor

A twelve year sentence of hard labor was handed down to US journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee in North Korea on Monday.  " North Korea on Monday sentenced two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor in...

Tougher human-trafficking laws lauded by experts

I truely believe this is because of all the hard work Glendene Grant had done to find Jessie and all the publicity it has gotten. I'm enclosing a statement made by Glendene in an article she posted. This was in...

Rights activist asks Pakistan president to halt death sentences

Chairman of the Ansar Burney Trust International Ansar Burney has requested President Asif Ali Zardari to halt death sentences till the final decision by the government on their fate.Burney, who is also an expert advisor/member of the United Nations Human Rights Council...

Vick spent $3.6 million in three months before going to jail

"onths before going to jail Getty ImagesAccording to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick went on a spending spree in the months...

Our New "D-Day"? OJ to be Sentenced Today!

"LAS VEGAS - If O.J. Simpson is looking for a break from the Nevada judge who will sentence him for kidnapping and armed robbery, he may be in the wrong courtroom.Judge Jackie Glass is known for giving severe...

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