As people in a packed courtroom wept, Lucy Henning talked about her own guilt at the death of her father, Alan Henning, who was tortured and beheaded by the Islamic State a decade ago.
“If I weren't a moody teenager, maybe he wouldn't have gone,” she said through tears at Friday's sentencing hearing for Alexanda Kotey, one of two British nationals — known as the “Beatles by their captives — who was convicted in U.S. District Court in Alexandria for their roles in the hostage-taking scheme. Roughly two dozen Westerners were abducted and four Americans were killed.
