ISIS ‘Beatle’ Sentenced to Life for Murdering US Hostages

ISIS ‘Beatle’ Sentenced to Life for Murdering US Hostages
Alexanda Kotey, whom the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) claim is a British national, in an undated handout photo in Amouda, Syria, and released on Feb. 9, 2018. Syrian Democratic Forces/Handout via Reuters
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WASHINGTON—A U.S. judge on Friday imposed a lifetime prison sentence on a member of an ISIS militant group nicknamed “The Beatles” that beheaded American hostages, at a hearing where one victim’s mother told the defendant, “I will not hate you.”

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis in Alexandria, Virginia, held an emotionally charged sentencing hearing for London-born Alexanda Kotey, 38, who pleaded guilty to murdering U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.