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(AP) A pizza deliveryman was sentenced to death Tuesday for the murders of 10 women and an unborn fetus during the 1980s and '90s in Los Angeles neighborhoods plagued by a crack cocaine epidemic. A jury in May recommended the death penalty for Chester Turner, and Superior Court Judge William R. Pounders on Tuesday agreed. "I don't think any jury would arrive at a different conclusion and would, in any court, demand a death penalty," Pounders said. Turner, 40, declined to say anything in court after several of the victims' relatives spoke at the hearing. The case will automatically be...

Charles fights death penalty for converts By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 18/12/2004) The Prince of Wales is brokering efforts to end the Muslim death penalty on converts to other faiths, The Telegraph has learned. He held a private summit of Christian and Muslim leaders at Clarence House this month to explore the centuries-old Islamic law under which apostates face persecution and even death. His intervention follows mounting anger at the treatment of Muslims who have converted to Christianity in a number of Islamic states. As an advocate of inter-faith dialogue, Prince Charles has come under pressure to criticise the...

In Japan, a senior member of the doomsday cult responsible for a deadly nerve gas attack on a Tokyo subway has been sentenced to death. Tomomasa Nakagawa is the tenth member of the Aum Supreme Truth cult to receive the death penalty. Nakagawa bowed to the judge after the verdict was handed down. The court ruled that the 41-year-old played a "key role" in releasing sarin gas in the Tokyo subway system in 1995. The attack killed 12 people and injured thousands. The trials stemming from the incident will soon reach a climax. Shoko Asahara, the leader of the cult,...