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Criminal

Feb. 15, 2007

Rare Federal Death Sentence Imposed in L.A.

LOS ANGELES - For the first time in 57 years, a jury in Los Angeles on Tuesday handed down the death penalty in a federal case.

By Robert Iafolla
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - For the first time in 57 years, a jury in Los Angeles on Tuesday handed down the death penalty in a federal case.
      The sentence was against two Russian immigrants who were convicted in a kidnapping-and- murder plot that left five victims dead. The last time a federal jury in Los Angeles delivered a death sentence was 1950, accordi...

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