More Murder News

If there is any crime that calls for the application of the death penalty it would be premeditated (or "masterminded") killing for financial gain or to avoid financial loss.

Like this sick & bloated fuck, a card-carrying member of the lying & cheating 1%.

Photo: James Fayed in court in May.
Credit: Al Seib/Associated Press

Fayed was convicted earlier this year of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of his wife, Pamela Fayed, who was killed as the couple fought for control over their multimillion-dollar gold-trading business during a bitter divorce.

Pamela Fayed, 44, was attacked by a hooded assailant on July 28, 2008, shortly after meeting with her husband and their attorneys.

Prosecutors successfully urged jurors to reach a verdict of death in the case, describing the crime as a “brutal betrayal.”

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James Fayed, authorities said, wanted to head off a potentially expensive divorce and feared his wife was preparing to cooperate with a federal investigation into their business practices.

Key to the case was a secretly recorded conversation between Fayed and a federal jail cellmate who was cooperating with authorities.

On the tape, which was played in court, Fayed admitted paying to arrange his wife’s slaying, and he plotted with the cellmate to have the accomplices killed.

But we'd be perfectly happy were the gold-trading criminal mastermind to spend the rest of his un-natural life in prison.