It's Only Life

A hostage taker involved in one of the bloodiest hostage sieges, the Beslan School massacre that resulted in over 330* people murdered (over 180 children), received a sentence of life in prison.

A Russian court sentenced the only surviving Beslan hostage-taker to life in prison on Friday for his part in the bloody 2004 school siege that killed 331 people.

Nurpashi Kulayev, a Chechen carpenter born in 1980, was found guilty on all charges, which included terrorism and murder. He had pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors had requested the death penalty for Kulayev, but Judge Tamerlan Aguzarov said a current moratorium on capital punishment ruled that out.

*Wikipedia claims that 344 civilians were killed in the siege.