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,Aug 30, 2022
Mother of Murdered Journalist Calls Life Sentence for ISIS Captors ‘A Huge Victory,’ Better than the Death Penalty
On the eighth anniversary of the August 19, 2014 murder of kidnapped journalist James Foley, a U.S. federal district court in Virginia sentenced his killer, Islamic State militant El Shafee Elsheikh, to eight life sentences in pri…