Man sentenced in slaying of U.S. nun
From Times Wire Reports
A Brazilian judge, in a retrial, sentenced a gunman to 27 years in prison for killing U.S. nun and rain forest defender Dorothy Stang, handing down the same punishment as in the first trial.
The jury in the state of Para voted unanimously after the automatic retrial to convict Rayfran das Neves Sales for the Feb. 12, 2005, killing, court spokeswoman Gloria Lima said.
Sales claimed that Stang, 73, threatened him. At his first trial, Sales said he mistook her Bible for a gun.
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