Amnesty for Nun Killers Refused
A judge today turned down a request for amnesty from three former national guardsmen convicted of the 1980 slayings of four American churchwomen, a court official said.
The three are serving 30-year prison sentences. They were convicted, along with two other former national guardsmen, in 1984 of the murders of Ursuline nun Dorothy Kazel, 41, and lay worker Jean Donovan, 27, both of Cleveland, and Maryknoll nuns Ita Ford, 40, and Maura Clark, 49, of New York. The request was made by Luis Antonio Colindres Aleman, Carlos Joaquin Contreras Palacios and Jose Roberto Moreno under the amnesty law decreed Nov. 5 as part of a Central American peace plan.
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