New Zealand’s Christchurch mosque terrorist sentenced to life in prison with no parole – CNN

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Christchurch, New Zealand (CNN)A far-right terrorist who killed 51 Muslim worshipers in New Zealand’s worst mass shooting in modern history will spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole, the first time such a sentence has been handed down in the country’s courts.

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