Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced on Wednesday to 45 years in prison by a New York federal court after being found guilty of drug and gun trafficking charges. He is also required to pay a $8 million fine.
Hernández had already been found guilty by a jury in March. His lawyers had requested the minimum sentence for these kinds of crimes, 40 years, while prosecutors in the case requested the maximum one, life in prison.
