SENTENCE

Colombian court sentences ex-paramilitary leader turned peacemaker

Published on: November 27, 2024
16:03

Bogotá, Nov 27 (Prensa Latina) Former paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso was sentenced today to 480 months in prison for 1,323 criminal acts committed from May 1999 to December 2004, but not implying restrictions on his freedom.

El Salvador: Sentence to be handed down in trial of environmentalist

Published on: October 18, 2024
10:57

San Salvador, Oct 18 (Prensa Latina) A court in El Salvador will rule against eight environmentalists and former combatants of the civil war, accused of murder, unlawful association and deprivation of liberty.

Case on attempted coup d’état in DRC concluded for sentencing

Published on: September 4, 2024
10:45

Kinshasa, Sep 4 (Prensa Latina) The military court of the garrison of Kinshasa-Gombe concluded the trial for the attempted coup d'état in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and will give its sentence on September 13, reported today.

USA: Paul Pelosi attacker sentenced to 30 years behind bars

Published on: May 17, 2024
15:50

Washington, May 17 (Prensa Latina) David DePape, the man who attacked the husband of former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Chile: Mapuche leader Héctor Llaitul sentenced to 23 years in prison

Published on: May 7, 2024
18:40

Santiago de Chile, May 7 (Prensa Latina) A Chilean court on Tuesday sentenced Mapuche leader Héctor Llaitul to 23 years behind bars for committing several crimes, in a sentence his defense attorneys considered as racist and politically driven.

El Paso gunman sentenced to 90 life term for Walmart shooting

Published on: July 7, 2023
16:49

Washington, Jul 7 (Prensa Latina) The gunman who killed 23 people and injured more than two dozen others in a 2019 mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso was sentenced Friday to 90 consecutive life sentences.

Alec Baldwin’s charge dropped in ¨Rust¨ shooting

Published on: February 21, 2023
18:19

Havana, Feb 21 (Prensa Latina) Actor and filmmaker Alec Baldwin no longer faces the possibility of five-year imprisonment after prosecutors dropped part of charges being levelled at him for his part in a fatal film set shooting, but he still could be behind bars for a lesser time.

France rejects executions of two prisoners in U.S.

Published on: February 9, 2023
16:49

Paris, Feb 9 (Prensa Latina) Following the execution of Leonard Taylor in Missouri and John Balentine in Texas, France reaffirmed its opposition to the death penalty everywhere and in all circumstances.

Colombian president supports sentence for crimes against UP

Published on: January 30, 2023
12:18

Bogota, Jan 30 (Prensa Latina) Colombian President Gustavo Petro affirmed on Monday that his Government would support the sentence issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the extermination of members of the Patriotic Union (UP) party.

Doug Jensen, Capito rioter sentenced to 60-month imprisonment

Published on: December 16, 2022
16:32

Washington, Nov 16 (Prensa Latina) Des Moines native Doug Jensen, easily spotted in picytures from the Capitol riot thanks to the ¨Q¨ t-shirt he wore that day -an homage to the conspiracist movement Qanon- and who harassed a police officer during the Jan. 6 insurrection, was sentenced to 60-month imprisonment, 36 months supervised release and ,000 of restitution Friday.

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