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Tuesday, March 19, 2013  Updated with photos from sentencing: Teen who shot to death 3 students at Ohio high school gets 3 life sentences without parole

Wednesday, February 13, 2013  South Carolina's highest court has overturned the death sentence of a man convicted of strangling an Anderson woman in 2006.

Friday, November 30, 2012  A Beaufort man has been sentenced to life in prison for shooting and killing a man in a restaurant last year.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012  Attorneys for a man serving a life sentence for raping and killing his 12-year-old daughter say the conviction should be tossed because a trial judge didn't let jurors hear statements from another man.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012  A South Carolina appellate court has ordered a new trial for a man serving a life sentence for two murders.

Monday, September 17, 2012  A federal judge who ruled that a Massachusetts prison inmate is eligible for a state-funded sex change operation has determined that the inmate is also eligible for public reimbursement of legal fees.

Tuesday, May 08, 2012  Kenneth Lynch has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Portia Washington and her granddaughter Angelica Livingston.

Thursday, March 29, 2012  A South Carolina mother who admitted suffocating her two young sons faces a possible life sentence Friday.

Friday, March 16, 2012  Shaquan  Duley pleaded guilty in an Orangeburg Courtroom for suffocating her two sons in 2010.

Thursday, August 11, 2011  A man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a Columbia pastor more than two years ago.  Forty-five-year-old Frankie Lee McGee was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday after a Richland County jury convicted him of murder.

Tuesday, October 05, 2010  The Pakistani immigrant who tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison, a mandatory penalty that left him defiant as ever.

Thursday, April 08, 2010  A 20-year-old South Carolina man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a teen in what a prosecutor said was part of his fantasy of being a gangster.

Thursday, March 04, 2010  Authorities say he beat his 7-year-old son to death with a broom handle.

Saturday, January 23, 2010 

Thursday, December 31, 2009  Pakistani police said Thursday they plan to ask a court to charge five Americans arrested in early December with terrorism, and will seek life sentences against them.