A man accused of killing his wife in a Coral Springs hospital parking lot in 2020 accepted a plea deal Friday, sparing him from the possibility of a death sentence. Philip Mathew pleaded no contest to the first-degree murder of Merin Joy, his wife who was planning an escape from an abusive relationship. In 2020, Joy, 26, then a nurse at Broward Health Coral Springs, was stabbed 17 times. ...