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"How can someone explain to a child that someone deliberately tried to kill him?", ask the parents of the French boy who was thrown off a viewing platform at London's Tate Modern art gallery by a troubled British teenager. In a statement read out by a police officer after perpetrator Jonty Bravery was sentenced to life in prison, the parents express the "fear and horror" caused by the crime. SOUNDBITE
A U.S. judge sentences radical imam Abu Hamza al-Masri to life in prison following federal terrorism charges. Nathan Frandino reports.
A U.S. judge sentences radical imam Abu Hamza al-Masri to life in prison following federal terrorism charges. Nathan Frandino reports.
The White House says it was "deeply troubled" by the first-ever execution in the United States using nitrogen gas. "We are deeply troubled by it," White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre says of Alabama's execution of an inmate on Thursday using nitrogen asphyxiation. SOUNDBITE
A German court sentences a Gambian man to life in prison over his participation in a death squad that assassinated opponents of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, including AFP journalist Deyda Hydara. Bai Lowe,48, has been convicted of crimes against humanity, murder and attempted murder for his role as a driver for the hit squad known as the "Junglers". IMAGES
Basketball star Brittney Griner has been sent to a remote Russian penal colony and has started serving her sentence. The IK-2 penal colony is in the town of Yavas in the central region of Mordovia - a few hundred kilometres southeast of Moscow - known for its harsh climate. IK stands for a "corrective colony", the most common type of prison in Russia. IMAGES