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Ali Al-Khawahir was 14 when he stabbed and paralyzed his best friend 10 years ago. Now, in Code of Hammurabi fashion, Al-Khawahir faces the same fate.

As international accolades pour in for Russian punk band Pussy Riot, a Moscow court has released one of the three jailed activists, on probation.

Eagle Point - Gary Harrington, an Oregon man, will be spending a month in jail, after being convicted on nine misdemeanor charges. His crime? "Illegally" collecting rain water on his own property.

Orlando - Accused and acquitted Casey Anthony has gotten a reduced four year sentence in jail with time served. In fact, she will be out on Wednesday which is sooner than most people expected.

Alan Gross, a contractor from the U.S., was sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban prison for crimes against the state on Friday. The U.S. wants Gross to be returned home. It seems cut and dry but was Gross a pawn in what Cuba claims by the United States?

On September 18, 2009, Jason Botos, 29, was charged with impaired driving in an accident that involved multiple vehicles and left three people critically injured. It was not the start of his problems with the law nor was it the end of them.

A Tibetan filmmaker has been sentenced to six years in prison for separatism by a court in China. Human rights groups and Reporters Without Borders have called for his release, to no avail.

Akmal Shaikh, a 53-year-old British man from London, will likely be the first British citizen executed in China in 50 years. Shaikh was found guilty of carrying drugs.

In a statement issued by his lawyer Ira Lee Sorkin, self confessed fraudster Bernard Madoff has confirmed that he will not be appealing against the 150 year prison term that was imposed on him by a New York court on June 29.

Despite his lawyer's plea that his client should receive a sentence of 12 years for the Ponzi scheme that he had long operated and which had robbed its victims of $65 billion, Madoff was sentenced today to the maximum possible prison term of 150 years.