O.J. Simpson Convicted

At last, as some would say, O.J. Simpson is going to get his just rewards. Not for murdering his wife and Ron Goldman but for armed robbery and kidnapping. The jury said they didn't need witnesses to convict O.J. but they could more on the video and other documented evidence. They felt they just couldn't rely on the witnesses testimonies. Simpson, who is 61 years old, will be sentenced in December and kept in jail until then. They had better keep him in jail or he will disappear faster than any magician's act. I cannot feel one bit sorry for him. I think it is about time some justice caught up with him. They had better not put him in with the general population of the state prison. Who knows what could happen? I wouldn't want to be in his shoes, would you?

Vancouver's Vanished Women

The story of serial killer, Robert Pickton, will haunt Canada for decades to come. Found guilty by a Vancouver court of murdering six women, he is charged with the killing of a further 20. The women are among dozens who disappeared in the l980s and l990s from Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, a district famed as "Canada's poorest postcode". For years, police refused to open murder cases, labeling the women simply as missing. No charges were pressed against the 57 year old pig farmer until February 2002, when police stumbled across some of the women's possessions while searching his property for firearms. When they began examining outhouses and sifting deep through the soil on the 10 acre farm, they found blood stained clothes and pieces of human bone and teeth, amassing enough evidence to charge him with 26 murders. Some of the bodies had been fed to the pigs.

Texas Clemency for Death Row Man

The governor of Texas has halted the execution of a getaway driver in a botched 1996 bank robbery that ended with an accomplice shooting a man dead. Governor Rick Perry commuted Kenneth Foster's death sentence to life after a recommendation from the parole board. Foster, who is now 30 years of age, was convicted under a Texas law allowing accomplices to a crime that results in murder to face capital punishment.

Ex-KKK Man Jailed for 1964 Deaths

A former Ku Klux Klansman has been jailed for life over the abduction and killing of two black teenagers in the US state of Mississippi. James Ford Seale, age 72, was given three life terms on charges of kidnapping and conspiracy over the deaths of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. Seale, a former policeman, has appealed against the conviction. The case was reopened in 2005 after Moore's brother found Seale was still alive. Seale was rearrested in January. Seale was first arrested in 1964 but authorities freed him, citing lack of evidence.