Maximum sentences for killers of Costa Rica environmentalist

Maximum sentences for killers of Costa Rica environmentalist San Jose (AFP) March 31, 2016 - A Costa Rican court on Tuesday sentenced four men to decades in prison for the 2013 murder of an environmentalist, tying up four Western women who were with him, and separately raping a Costa Rican woman. The judgment capped a nine-week retrial of seven men accused of the killing of Jairo Mora, a 26-year-old Costa Rican working to protect sea turtle nests on the country's Caribbean coast. ... more

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