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A Moroccan appeal court confirmed a death sentence Friday against the mastermind of the April 2011 Marrakesh bombing that killed 17 people, and handed a death sentence to one of the others convicted.The chief judge of the court confirmed the death sentence against Adil Al-Atmani, the mastermind of the bombings, in which 17 people -- Moroccans, French and Swiss nationals -- were killed and dozens more wounded.And it converted the life term handed down to his chief accomplice Hakim Dah to a death sentence.But the death sentences are unlikely to be carried, with capital punishment in the process of being taken off the statutes.The court also increased the jail sentences against six of the other men convicted at the original trial in October from...
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