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U.S. Court Sentences Somali Pirates to Life Imprisonment for Murder of Four Americans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2013

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References

1 Finn, Peter, Capital Trial for Somali Pirates Will Begin in Va. This Week, Wash. Post, June 3, 2013, at A3 Google Scholar; Kenber, Billy, Jury Recommends Life Sentences for Somalis in Deadly Pirate Incident, Wash. Post, Aug. 3, 2013, at A14.Google Scholar

2 [Editor’s note: see U.S. Dep’t of State Fact Sheet, Contact Group on Piracy Off the Coast of Somalia: Quarterly Update (July 18, 2013), at http://www.state.gov/t/pm/rls/fs/2013/212140.htm; Crook, John R., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 107 AJIL 650, 689 (2013)]Google Scholar.

3 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release No. 2013/0974, Sentencing of Somali Pirates Involved in the Attack on the S/V QUEST (Aug. 7, 2013), at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2013/08/212809.htm.