{"id":40041,"date":"2014-02-26T13:22:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40041"},"modified":"2014-02-26T13:22:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T18:22:51","slug":"lee-rigbys-killers-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40041","title":{"rendered":"Lee Rigby&#8217;s killers sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably remember the story about Drummer Rigby who was murdered in the street in broad day light in London last year. Well, the court system got around to sentencing his murders today, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com\/lee-rigby-killers-handed-long-sentences-173257666.html\">Al-Jazeera<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Adebelajo, 29, was handed a full life sentence on Wednesday, while Michael Adebowale, 22, his accomplice, received a minimum term of 45 years.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants were found guilty of Rigby&#8217;s murder on December 19, but their sentencing was delayed because the judge wanted to wait for clarification about Britain&#8217;s position on life sentences.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s Court of Appeal last week said domestic laws on whole-life prison sentences were compatible with European human rights laws, even though the European Union disagrees.<\/p>\n<p>Adebelajo and Adebowale deliberately hit Rigby with a car, stabbed him multiple times and tried to cut his head off in broad daylight outside an army base in the London suburb of Woolwich last May.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the news story, Adebelajo and Adebowale laid in wait for any soldier to get within range of their automobile with the express purpose of killing whoever showed up because Rigby signed up to die. So there you go. And the European Union doesn&#8217;t think they should get life sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably remember the story about Drummer Rigby who was murdered in the street in broad &hellip; <a title=\"Lee Rigby&#8217;s killers sentenced\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40041\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lee Rigby&#8217;s killers sentenced<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}