Nun's nemesis gets 30 years

A Brazilian rancher convicted of ordering the murder of United States nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Jurors in the jungle city of Belem found Vitalmiro Moura guilty after 15 hours of deliberations.

It was his third trial.

Stang worked for 30 years to preserve the rain forest and defend poor settlers' land rights.

Prosecutors say Moura ordered her killing in 2005 because she blocked him and another rancher from taking land the Government gave to farmers.