Federal prosecutors asked a judge to sentence Joaquin Guzmán, the Mexican drug cartel leader known as 'El Chapo,' to life in prison.
Almost five dozen witnesses testified to Guzmán's oversight of industrial-scale drug smuggling — prosecutors said he was responsible for shipping more than 200 tons of cocaine to the United States — brutal murders and political payoffs in his three-month trial.
Jurors were told that Guzmán once punished a man for working for another cartel by burning him with an iron, leaving him in a henhouse for days and then shooting him before burying him alive. Another witness alleged that Guzmán paid a $100 million bribe to former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Peña Nieto denied the allegation.
Guzmán twice escaped from Mexican prisons, once in 2001 and again in 2015, this time through a mile-long tunnel under his cell.
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