Sentences News

Managua - A pastor and several followers were sentenced on Tuesday to 30 years in prison for a fatal exorcism in a remote part of Nicaragua in which a woman was thrown naked onto a fire.

Los Angeles - Wednesday evening I had the pleasure of talking to lyricist, producer, and comic book writer, MF Grimm, real name Percy Carey.

Liverpool - The ringleader of the Rochdale Muslim child grooming gang has been sentenced to 19 years. Others involved have received sentences ranging from between four and twelve years.

Washington - More than 2,500 youth offenders serving life without parole sentences in United States adult prisons experience conditions violating basic human rights, including denied access to education, isolationism, rape, and assault, according to a new report.

A court in China has handed down its verdicts to six people who took part in riots earlier this year. They will face the death penalty for sentences of murder and other acts that were committed during the riots in Xinjiang.

Warren Jeffs has been sentenced to 10 years to life in prison for forcing a 14-year-old to marry her first cousin. The leader of FLDS was given five years to life for both of the felony convictions of being an accomplice to rape.

In 2006, the number of death sentences handed out in the U.S. dropped to the lowest level ever since capital punishment was reinstated 30 years ago.

"A Chinese court sentenced the founder of the country's largest pornography Web site to life imprisonment on Wednesday and jailed another eight of the site's organizers, state media reported."