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El Paso Walmart gunman Patrick Crusius given 90 life sentences in federal trial

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Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty in February to dozens of federal hate crimes and firearms charges. The El Paso Walmart gunman was formally sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences for the racist 2019 massacre that killed 23 people and injured nearly two dozen others, according to El Paso ABC affiliate KVIA. Judge David Guaderrama handed down the sentence on Friday after hearing two days of emotional impact statements from victims and the family members of victims. The gunman , 24-year-old Patrick Crusius, pleaded guilty in February to dozens of federal hate crimes and firearms charges. El Paso Walmart shooting suspect Patrick Crusius pleads not guilty during his arraignment in El Paso, Texas, Oct. 10, 2019. Briana Sanchez/AP Crusius allegedly told investigators following his arrest that he set out to kill as many Mexicans as he could after driving from his home in Allen, Texas, about 650 miles east of El Paso, officials said. Twenty-two shooting victims died within days of the ...

New York City subway gunman Frank James receives 10 life sentences

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Frank James, who opened fire on a crowded subway car in Brooklyn at rush hour, injuring 10 people, was sentenced to 10 life terms. Frank James will spend the rest of his life in prison after receiving 10 life sentences Thursday in Brooklyn federal court, one sentence for each victim of the April 2022 shooting aboard a subway car at rush hour. "I alone am responsible for that attack," James said in court. "They in no way deserved to have what happened to them." James had been charged with 10 counts of committing a terror attack on a mass transit system, after opening fire on a Manhattan-bound N train in Brooklyn on the morning of April 12, 2022. He pleaded guilty in January. FILE - New York City police and law enforcement officials lead subway shooting suspect Frank James, center, away from a police station in New York on April 13, 2022. James, who sprayed the inside of a New York City subway train with gunfire and then slipped away in a stunned crowd, is set to ...

Multiple life sentences sought for NYC truck terror attacker

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Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence a convicted terrorist to multiple life sentences "to provide just punishment" for killing eight people. Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbekistan native who planned and carried out a 2017 ISIS-inspired terror attack on the west side of Manhattan, deserves multiple life sentences "to provide just punishment" for killing eight people, federal prosecutors said Monday in a sentencing memorandum to the judge. Judge Vernon Broderick is scheduled to impose a sentence on Wednesday after more than two dozen relatives of victims deliver statements to the court. Most of them will be traveling from Argentina or Belgium, the native countries of the tourist victims. Saipov was convicted in January of all 28 counts he faced in connection to carrying out the deadly attack along a Hudson River bike path with a truck he had rented, but escaped the death penalty after jurors deadlocked on sentencing for the nine charges Saipov faced that were...