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Last of Somali Pirates Sentenced in Americans' Deaths

The last members of a group of Somali pirates convicted in the deaths of four Americans have been sentenced to multiple life terms. A U.S. federal judge on Thursday ordered the two men to serve 21 life sentences, 19 of them consecutively. A third man received a similar sentence on Tuesday.Prosecutors originally sought the death penalty for the three men. They were convicted of murder, piracy and other charges for their roles in the 2011 hijacking of a yacht off the coast of...


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