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Guillotine drug dealers in public, Maine’s LePage jokes

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage says with a laugh that he wants to use the guillotine to execute drug dealers at public executions. The governor's office said Tuesday the remark during a radio interview on WVOM was just a joke to illustrate his support for tougher

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Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers to argue for new trial

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are heading to court to urge a judge to grant him a new trial. Judge George O'Toole Jr. is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in U.S. District Court, but only on the portion of Tsarnaev's motion

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Pastors facing death sentence freed in Sudan

Written by Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) After international outcry, two South Sudanese Presbyterian Evangelical Church pastors who faced a possible death sentence in Sudan have been set free after a court hearing Wednesday (Aug. 5).