In Brazil, a jury has overturned the conviction of a Brazilian rancher for the killing of a US-born Catholic nun in the Amazon rainforest. Vitalmiro de Moura had been sentenced to thirty years for paying gunmen to murder seventy-three-year-old Sister Dorothy Stang in Feburary 2005. But on Tuesday, a new jury absolved him of the crime. Dorothy Stang’s brother, David, said her family would appeal.

David Stang: “We are surprised at the result. We will try all of the different agencies, judicial system to appeal this case, and we hope that we will win at another time.”

Sister Stang had been trying to stop illegal logging by de Moura when she was killed. She had lived and worked in Brazil for more than thirty years.