In 2001 Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was convicted of murder in connection with the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103. Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence agent, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 20 years (later increased to 27 years). However, he served only eight years. In 2008 he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, and he was released on compassionate grounds the following year. He returned to Libya, where he died in 2012 at age 60.
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