A man who fire-bombed an Oklahoma synagogue was sentenced to 39 years in jail. Sean Gillespie, who was sentenced Tuesday, was found guilty earlier this year of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Temple B’Nai Israel in Oklahoma City in April 2004.
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