Appeal hearings for a white supremacist who shot dead 51 people at two New Zealand mosques in 2019 caused "immense distress" to his victims, a lawyer representing the state said Friday as proceedings wrapped up. Brenton Tarrant, a 35-year-old Australian former gym instructor, admitted carrying out New Zealand's deadliest modern-day mass shooting before being sentenced to life in jail in August 2020. The convicted killer argued this week in Wellington's Court of Appeal that "torturous and inhumane" detention conditions had made him incapable of making rational decisions when he pleaded guilty, according to a court synopsis of the case. As...