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His first murder conviction was overturned, but Warren Powell didn't fare any better the second time around.
A dozen years after his first trial, Powell was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum of life in prison for strangling his pregnant wife. The sentence of 25 years to life begins after he serves 15 to 30 years for an unrelated drug conviction.
The 1997 murder verdict was overturned by an appellate court in 2004 because of an error in jury selection...
Labels: life in prison, Mary Ann Powell, New York, pregnant, river, strangulation, wife
Relying primarily on the testimony of a nine-year-old girl, a sessions court here has convicted her father, a naval officer, for murdering his wife.
Upendra Rai (35) was been sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday for murdering his wife Vandana (32) on October 24, 2005 on suspicion of having an illicit relationship.
On the day of the incident, the accused came to his residence in an inebriated state around 2330 hours and picked up a fight with his wife and started assaulting her physically...
Labels: assault, children as witness, fight, India, life in prison, military, Upendra Rai, Vandana Rai, wife
A lower court today awarded life imprisonment to one 52-year-old man for the murder of his wife in 2006.
District and Sessions Judge Kewal Krishna Garg pronounced the judgment to Nirmal Singh for the murder of his wife Malkiat Kaur under Section 302 of the IPC. The couple’s son Ajit Pal Singh (23), meanwhile, was acquitted of all charges.
On November 16, 2006, Nirmal and his son had surrendered to the police, claiming they had murdered Malkiat a night before. Nirmal had told the police that Malkiat called him impotent and a worthless man on the night of the murder, after which, they decided to kiil her...
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A man accused of running over and killing his wife could spend the rest of his life in prison.
On Monday afternoon, a judge sentenced Sherman Lynch to 16 years to life in prison.
Lynch was convicted running over Patricia Rothermich with his pick-up truck last year...
