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Local January 6, 2011 | 5:58 am

Fernandez favors special penalties for contract killers

Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernández instructed the Security and DefenceCouncil members to create a special mechanism for penalizing cases of contractkillings.

Council member Marino Vinicio Castillo said that during theirpenultimate meeting held at the end of last year, the president expressed theneed to introduce a measure for punishing contract killings with greaterseverity.<... Read more