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Tiller’s Killer Gets Life in Prison for Gunning Abortion Doctor Down in Church
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Nicole Neroulias
A Christian extremist who murdered George Tiller, a doctor who had performed late-term abortions in Kansas, was sentenced to life in prison yesterday. Scott Roeder, 52, shot the 67-year-old physician during a Sunday service at Tiller’s church last year. CNN reported that before his sentencing, Roeder blasted Tiller, quoted the Bible at length and argued the…
CNN: Condemned ‘Sorcerer’ Still Alive, in Saudi Prison
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Nicole Neroulias
It’s been a relatively good Friday for Ali Hussain Sibat, the Lebanese TV fortune-teller arrested by Saudi Arabia’s religious police and convicted of witchcraft last year. CNN reports that his attorney said he has not been beheaded today after all, though he remains sentenced to death. It seems the efforts by Amnesty International and other international human…
Trial Dates Set for Utah ‘Prophets’ Warren Jeffs, Brian David Mitchell
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Nicole Neroulias
It’s going to be a sour November for Mormons, with long-awaited trial dates now set for Warren Jeffs, the former leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and Brian David Mitchell, the self-proclaimed prophet accused of abducting Elizabeth Smart seven years ago. The official Church of Latter-day Saints abandoned plural marriage more…
BREAKING NEWS: TV ‘Magician’ May Be Executed in Saudi Arabia Tomorrow
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Nicole Neroulias
The lawyer for Ali Hussain Sibat, a fortune-teller on a Lebanese TV show, says Saudi Arabia plans to behead her client tomorrow. (This is not an April Fools’ Day joke.) Sibat, 49, is Lebanese citizen, but was arrested by Saudi religious police who recognized him from his show while he was on a Muslim pilgrimage to Medina two years…
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