Crime Boss Gets 11 Life Prison Terms
A court has convicted an organized crime boss from southern Italy of 11 murders and sentenced him to 11 successive life terms in prison.
The court in Palmi heard testimony that Giuseppe Piromalli, 64, was a chief in the N’Drangheta, a Mafia-like crime ring in Calabria, southern Italy.
Prosecutors had asked the court to sentence Piromalli to three life terms for the murders, which occurred between 1978 and 1982, but the court delivered the harsher verdict last week.
He is among 62 defendants on trial for being members of a Piromalli crime family.
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