Indian-American killer extradited, starts 23-year prison term

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A decade after pleading guilty to killing his ex-lover in the US, a fugitive Indian-American medical billing specialist has started serving his 23-year prison term in a Texas jail after being extradited from India.Amit livingston, 47, fled to India in 2007 after he pleaded guilty to killing his 31-year-old former lover Hermila Hernandez in 2005.
Hernandez, a married mother of three children, was shot in the back of the head and her body was left on a South Padre Island in Texas after she reportedly told livingston she wanted to end their relationship, KGBT-TV reported.livingston was arrested in India in 2014 and jailed in Hyderabad before being extradited to the US, under the terms of a 1997 India-US extradition treaty.
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