‘I saw my mom shoot my dad’: Alabama woman gets 40 years for killing husband
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
By Marian Accardi The Decatur Daily, Ala. (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
A Decatur woman found guilty of murder in the June 2016 shooting of her husband received a 40-year prison sentence on Tuesday.
Morgan County Circuit Judge Stephen Brown, who presided over the case, handed down the sentence for Michelle Owens, 48, at a sentencing hearing. The maximum sentence for a murder conviction is life in prison. She will be eligible for parole after 15 years in prison.
Owens didn’t make a statement at the hearing.