Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, a Tanzanian, was sentenced...

Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, a Tanzanian, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for having a direct role in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Mohamed, 28, was convicted on May 29 by a Manhattan federal jury with three others for conspiring with Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden to kill Americans in an international plot that included bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam.
On July 10, although Mohamed could have been sentenced to death, the jury was deadlocked on whether he should be executed. Because they could not agree, U.S. District Judge Leonard Sand was required under federal law to sentence him to life in prison.
The Constitutional Court earlier in 2000 ruled that the government erred in handing over convicted US Tanzanian embassy bomber Khalfan Mohamed to US authorities without first seeking an assurance that he would not face the death penalty because South Africa's constitution outlawed capital punishment.