U.S. judge imposes a lifetime prison sentence on a member of an ISIS militant group nicknamed “The Beatles” that beheaded American hostages.
for their British accents. The hearing included testimony from victims’ relatives.
“I will not hate you,” Kassig’s mother, Paula Kassig, said to Kotey during the hearing. “It would give sadness, pain and bitterness too much power over me. I choose to let my heart be broken open, not broken apart.” Ellis agreed to keep Kotey detained in Alexandria until July and said that arrangement would facilitate those meetings.
Kotey admitted to inflicting torture on hostages, including waterboarding and electric shocks with a stun gun.
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