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2011 Arizona shooter given seven life sentences
November 09, 2012

The gunman who shot US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in a massacre that left six others dead in Arizona has been given seven life sentences plus 140 years in jail.  

 

"He'll never have the opportunity to pick up a gun again," said Judge Larry Burns, according to Tucson, Arizona's KVOA TV, as he sentenced Jared Lee Loughner.  

 

Loughner pleaded guilty in August to the January 2011 attack. Ms Giffords was in court for the sentencing.

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