Category: life in prison

Man Gets Life in Prison for Killing Navy Midshipman’s Mother

ANNAPOLIS, Md.—A Maryland man convicted of fatally shooting the mother of a U.S. Naval Academy football player with a stray bullet was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Capital Gazette reports that Angelo Harrod’s life sentence was the maximum punishment sought in the case. In December, a jury convicted…


Put North Dakota’s Shannon Brandt in Prison for Life

Commentary Does that sound extreme? It shouldn’t. Not to a healthy society, at least. Shannon Brandt, 41, ran down 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson with his car in North Dakota due to a supposed political disagreement. He then fled the scene, leaving the teenager to die of his injuries. Brandt was drunk and argued that he felt threatened…


Former Air Force Sergeant Gets Life in Prison in Deputy’s Killing

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—A former Air Force sergeant has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the killing of a Northern California sheriff’s sergeant. Steven Carrillo, 33, pleaded guilty in June to all nine counts, including murder, for the killing of Santa Cruz County Sheriff Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller. Also in June, a federal judge…


Vegan Mother Gets Life in Prison for Starvation Death of Son

FORT MYERS, Fla.—A vegan woman convicted of murder in the malnutrition death of her young son was sentenced Monday to life in prison. Sheila O’Leary, 38, whose family followed a strict vegan diet, was convicted in June on six charges—first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter, child abuse, and two counts of child neglect—in the…


Life for ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ Author in Spouse Death

PORTLAND, Ore.—A self-published romance novelist who once wrote an online essay called “How to Murder Your Husband” was sentenced Monday to life in prison with the possibility of parole for murdering her husband at his workplace in Portland four years ago. Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, was convicted of second-degree murder on May 25 following a…


‘How to Murder Your Husband’ Author Sentenced for Life in Spouse Death

PORTLAND, Ore.—A self-published romance novelist who once wrote an online essay called “How to Murder Your Husband” was sentenced Monday to life in prison with the possibility of parole for murdering her husband at his workplace in Portland four years ago. Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, was convicted of second-degree murder on May 25 following a…


Indonesian Army Officer Gets Life Sentence for Double Murder

JAKARTA, Indonesia—A middle-rank Indonesian army officer is being stripped of his military title after he was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for murder, joint deprivation of the independence of others, and removing the bodies with the intention of concealment in a case that drew public outcry. Priyanto held the title colonel before his sentencing…


Man Who Won $10 Million Lottery Prize Sentenced to Life in Prison

BOLIVIA, N.C.—A North Carolina man who won a $10 million lottery prize in 2017 has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the 2020 fatal shooting of his girlfriend. The News & Observer reports that Michael Todd Hill, 54, of Leland, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced Friday in…


Man Gets Life in Prison, Plus 45 Years, in Beheading Case

CONCORD, N.H.—A New Hampshire man convicted of killing his wife’s co-worker and forcing her to behead him was sentenced Friday to life in prison, plus 45 years. Armando Barron, 32, was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of life without parole. A judge imposed additional time as recommended by prosecutors for…


3 Sentenced to Prison in Slayings of Ohio Man, Teen Girl

CLEVELAND, Ohio—Two men have been sentenced to life in prison and a third to a shorter term in the grisly deaths of an Ohio man and his teenage daughter more than three years ago. The bodies of 39-year-old Paul Bradley and 14-year-old Paris Bradley were found in October 2018 in a burning car in East…