Life sciences

摘要

Amy Bishop, the biologist who murdered three colleagues in cold blood and grievously wounded two others, will spend the rest of her life behind bars after an Alabama court sentenced her last week. The Harvard-trained assistant professor had been denied tenure at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. In February 2010, months after her appeal against the decision failed, Bishop, a mother of four, pulled out a 9-millimetre pistol during a faculty meeting in a tiny conference room.