The Louisiana Supreme Court building is pictured in New Orleans. Fair Wayne Bryant was convicted in 1997 of stealing hedge clippers and sentenced to life. Bill Haber/AP hide caption toggle caption Bill Haber/AP The Louisiana Supreme Court building is pictured in New Orleans. Fair Wayne Bryant was convicted in 1997 of stealing hedge clippers and sentenced to life. Bill Haber/AP A Louisiana man serving a life sentence for stealing a pair of hedge clippers in 1997 was paroled on Thursday, after spending more than two decades in prison for his crime. That act of simple burglary wouldn’t normally lead to a […]
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Anthony Bottom, who now goes by the name Jalil Muntaqim, was interviewed in New York state prison in 2018. He’s going home on parole after more than four decades behind bars. Messiah Rhodes/Screenshot by NPR (YouTube) hide caption toggle caption Messiah Rhodes/Screenshot by NPR (YouTube) Anthony Bottom, who now goes by the name Jalil Muntaqim, was interviewed in New York state prison in 2018. He’s going home on parole after more than four decades behind bars. Messiah Rhodes/Screenshot by NPR (YouTube) State officials in New York confirmed this week the parole of Anthony Bottom, age 68, who now identifies as Jalil […]
While serving his sentence, mass killer Anders Breivik, the man behind the bloodiest killing spree in the history of modern Norway, expressed remorse over his deeds and voiced a desire to leave the extremist environment. However, many dismissed his “remorse” as mere manipulation. Convicted Norwegian terrorist and mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, who is serving a 21-year sentence for killing 77 people on 22 July 2011, has submitted a request for parole through his lawyer. “He wants this now. He has been in solitary confinement for over eight years since the trial was over,” Breivik’s lawyer Øystein Storrvik told the newspaper […]
A New Zealand court has sentenced mass shooter Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 Muslim worshipers at a mosque last year, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the first such ruling ever handed down in the country. The 29-year-old Australian previously admitted to some 92 charges – 51 for murder, 40 for attempted murder and one linked to terrorism – following the 2019 shooting rampage at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. At Tarrant’s sentencing on Thursday, High Court Judge Cameron Mander said the severity of his crimes justified the harsh penalty. “Your crimes… are so wicked that even […]
New Zealand’s Christchurch saw two mass shootings at Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre in March 2019. The attacker, Brenton Tarrant, live-streamed the massacre that took 51 lives and left around 50 people injured. Brenton Tarrant, a gunman behind the mass shootings in mosques in Christchurch, received a life sentence without parole in the High Court of Christchurch on Thursday. It is a first time in New Zealand’s history the life sentence is handed down. Tarrant, who did not oppose the life sentence, has been labeled “clearly New Zealand’s worst murderer”. The judge, Cameron Mander, called Tarrant’s crimes “brutal and beyond […]