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Christian Science Monitor

US District Judge Lake, who has been lauded for running an evenhanded and efficient trial so far, stunned the legal community when he told the jury it may find Enron founder Kenneth Lay and its CEO Jeffrey Skilling guilty of simply ignoring red flags

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PC World

A British court approved a request by the US to extradite an unemployed systems administrator who allegedly caused $700,000 in damage by hacking into U.S. military and government computers.

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Associated Press

A 14-year-old boy beaten by guards at a juvenile boot camp died because the guards suffocated him, a medical examiner said. The findings of the second autopsy conflict with the initial ruling from a different medical examiner that the boy died from c

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Reuters

Zacarias Moussaoui, sentenced to life in prison for his part in the September 11 plot, will almost certainly live out his days in a soundproofed cell, seldom having direct contact with other human beings. Moussaoui was expected to be sent as early

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Associated Press

Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui escaped the death penalty as a jury decided he deserved life in prison instead for his role in the bloodiest terrorist attack in U.S. history. "America, you lost," Moussaoui taunted. After seven da

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Associated Press

A man whose son was convicted of supporting terrorism by attending an al-Qaida camp in Pakistan was released after nearly a year in federal custody. Umer Hayat, a 48-year-old ice cream vendor, had been held since he and his son, Hamid, were arrested

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Associated Press

The government had no clear evidence that Hayat had attended a camp, but prosecutors characterized their case as pre-emptive. "Our mission in the post-9/11 context is to prevent that crime from ever happening," US Attorney McGregor Scott sa

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Reuters

Execution by lethal injection may cause excruciating pain, contradicting its reputation as a humane and thus publicly acceptable way to impose the death penalty. Executioners fail to take the steps needed to ensure a painless death and use a drug tha

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Associated Press

Supreme Court Justice Scalia on those who questioned his impartiality after he refused to recuse himself from a case involving his hunting buddy, Vice President Cheney. "For Pete's sake, if you can't trust your Supreme Court justice more

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USA Today

The average sentence for a national security or terrorism conviction last year was 58 months - about half of what drug violators received and a third of the average for weapons violators. Half of those convicted of terrorism or national security viol

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Associated Press

Nearly 60 years after a white mob lynched two black couples on a summer afternoon and got away with it, the FBI is taking another look at the case. Civil rights activists have pressed witnesses to come forward and break the silence, which they say is

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Reuters

The jury deciding whether Zacarias Moussaoui should die heard the dramatic cockpit recording on Wednesday of passengers struggling to thwart hijackers in the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. [And this is still secret from pub

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