MEXICO CITY, Rajab 22, 1437, April 29, 2016, SPA -- A judge has sentenced a general in the Mexican army to 52 آ½ years in prison for ordering the torture of a suspect, then having his body burned, according to AP. The sentence was among the longest ever against a senior officer in the Mexican army. The federal judiciary council said Thursday the conviction came in a 2008 case in the northern state of Chihuahua. It did not name the general. Troops under the general's command detained a suspect in a soldier's death and tortured him for hours with electric shocks until he died. They then took the man's body to a ranch and burned it. --SPA 00:35 LOCAL TIME 21:35 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w