Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin, who is serving a life prison sentence, wants a retrial. Relatives of Yigal Amir said this week that the convicted murderer will ask the Justice Ministry to grant him a new trial, citing what he calls new evidence suggesting that someone else fired the shot that killed the Israeli prime minister at a November 1995 peace rally.
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