Man who killed nun released from jail
SAO PAULO — The confessed killer of U. S. nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang has been released from jail after serving less than nine of the 27 years he was sentenced to back in 2005, officials said Thursday.
The judiciary branch of the northern state of Para on Thursday said on its website that Judge Claudio Henrique Rendeiro ruled that Rayfran das Neves Sales was entitled to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest.
Neves is prohibited from frequenting bars, must sleep at home and find a job. He was released Tuesday.
Neves, who served eight years and eight months, confessed that in 2005 he shot Stang six times. Two accomplices, Clodoaldo Carlos Batista and Amair Feijoli da Cunha, are serving 17 and 18 years, respectively. the only remaining threat to his rule was a far-off — and improbable — foreign intervention.
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