Obama's assassin sentenced to 25 years in prison

On January 17, a US Federal Court sentenced Everett Dutschke, a 41-year-old martial arts teacher, for sending letters containing the poison ricin to President Barack Obama and many other officials.

At the trial held in Oxford, Mississippi, with clear evidence, the US federal court convicted defendant Dutschke of making ricin himself and sending letters laced with this poison to many people, including President Obama.

Everett Dutschke was sentenced to 25 years in prison. (Source: AP)

For the above crime, the court sentenced him to 25 years in prison, the sentence will be officially approved within two months.

Everett Dutschke was arrested on April 27, 2013, at his home in Tupelo after federal investigators found traces of the poison ricin at his Taekwondo gym and car, along with an online order for red castor oil on eBay in December 2012.

Dutschke also kept at least two documents on his personal computer that showed how to prepare ricin. On April 1, the suspect was also charged with molesting three children between the ages of 7 and 16 between 2010 and 2013.

The toxic letters discovered last April, shortly after the Boston bombings, have echoed similar developments as the series of letters and packages containing anthrax powder that appeared shortly after the horrific September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The incident caused all congressional mailboxes, postal receiving points in the Capitol building and the White House to be temporarily closed, and security around the area was also tightened.

Ricin is classified as a highly toxic substance, used as a weapon of mass destruction. According to chemical experts, just 1 gram of this substance is enough to kill 36,000 people. People poisoned by ricin often have symptoms of vomiting, difficulty breathing, purple skin, coma and death within 36-72 hours of exposure.

There is currently no antidote for ricin./.

According to VNA