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coal executive has been convicted of conspiracy in a deadly mine blast in West Virginia in 2010

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I hope he dies in prison.

A prominent coal executive has been convicted of conspiracy in a deadly mine blast in West Virginia in 2010
Thursday, December 3, 2015 12:46 PM EST

Donald L. Blankenship, a titan of the nation’s coal industry whose approach to business was scrutinized and scorned after 29 workers were killed at the Upper Big Branch mine in 2010, was convicted Thursday of a federal charge of conspiring to violate mine safety that stemmed from the accident, the deadliest in mining in the United States in decades.

The verdict reached by a federal jury here made Mr. Blankenship, 65, the most prominent American coal executive ever convicted of charges connected to the deaths of miners.

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