Josef Fritzl sentenced to die in prison...

Josef Fritzl has been sentenced to life in prison for locking up and raping his daughter in a cellar over 24 years, fathering seven children with her, and causing the death of an infant son.

He will spend the rest of his days in a secure psychiatric facility.

The jury first convicted Fritzl of the murder of his newborn son - a child borne to him by his daughter Elisabeth in the dank cellar beneath his Austrian home. More...

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