A Federal jury in New York sentenced Tanzanian Khalfan...

A Federal jury in New York sentenced Tanzanian Khalfan Khamis Mohamed to life without parole for the August 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that killed eleven people. The seven women and five men deliberated his fate for three days before rejecting the prosecution's call for the death penalty. Defence attorneys argued that Mohamed was not a leader of the terror conspiracy and a minor participant in the bomb plot, and that other equally or more culpable conspirators don't face the death penalty. Defence attorneys said that Mohamed's execution would make him a martyr. On May 28, the South African Constitutional Court ruled that South African government illegally handed over to U.S. authorities him. The court said the government should not have turned over Khalfan Khamis Mohamed without first obtaining from U.S. authorities assurances that Mohamed would not face the death penalty. Mohammed, 27, was arrested by South African authorities in Cape Town in October 1999, and handed over to the American FBI, which had him on its most-wanted list. He had been living in South Africa for a year, having fled Tanzania seeking political asylum.