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DECATUR, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama woman convicted of killing her husband in front of one of their children was sentenced to 40 years in prison after a court rejected defense claims she was mentally ill.
A Morgan County judge handed down the sentence Tuesday to 48-year-old Michelle Owens of Decatur. A jury convicted Owens of murder in October in the killing of 44-year-old Lawrence Edward “Eddie” Owens, rejecting her claims of mental illness. Evidence showed the man was shot to death at the couple’s home with a pistol in June 2016 as one of their young sons watched.
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Decatur woman gets 40 years in prison for murdering husband while child watched
Michelle Owens
Posted: Jan 6, 2021 9:56 AM
Posted By: The Associated Press
DECATUR - An Alabama woman convicted of killing her husband in front of one of their children was sentenced to 40 years in prison after a court rejected defense claims she was mentally ill.
A Morgan County judge handed down the sentence Tuesday to 48-year-old Michelle Owens of Decatur.
A jury convicted Owens of murder in October in the killing of 44-year-old Lawrence Edward “Eddie” Owens, rejecting her claims of mental illness.
Evidence showed the man was shot to death at the couple’s home with a pistol in June 2016 as one of their young sons watched.
‘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.