Kenneth Iwamasa, the longtime personal assistant to actor Matthew Perry, has been sentenced to more than three years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy in the star's death.
Matthew Perry, the 54-year-old star of the television show Friends, drowned in his hot tub in 2023 while under the effects of ketamine. Iwamasa gave Perry the fatal injection and was the fifth and final person sentenced for a role in the death.
Kenneth Law, a former chef from Canada, pleaded guilty Friday to counseling or aiding suicide in a Newmarket, Ontario court. The plea covers charges related to 14 deaths in Ontario. Prosecutors agreed to drop 14 murder charges as part of the deal.
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A Pennsylvania man received a prison sentence last week for helping his girlfriend kill her 18-month-old daughter in 2021. Maurice Davis, 34, was sentenced to 24 and a half to 50 years after pleading no contest to related charges. The child, Li'Aziah Thomas, died from blunt force trauma.
A 29-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for killing his aunt in a dispute over a clogged toilet at their shared California home.
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Herbert Swilley has been convicted of first-degree murder in the death of his husband, health care executive Timothy Smith. Investigators said Swilley drugged Smith with a lethal dose of allergy medicine before strangling him and staging the scene to look like a sexual encounter gone wrong. The case is featured in a new episode of the A&E series Killer Investigations.