Islamic Terrorist Gets 8 Life Sentences
El Shafee Elsheikh, a notorious member of the Islamic State group, was sentenced to life in prison for the beheading deaths of American hostages. He is the most notorious and highest-ranking member of the Islamic State group ever to be convicted in a U.S. court, prosecutors said at his sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. Elsheikh led an Islamic State hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago. Four American hostages were killed, and …