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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Man sentenced to life for '99 slaying of 2 teen girls in Alabama

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A man convicted of the 1999 slaying of two teenage girls in southeast Alabama was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Circuit Judge William Filmore officially handed down the sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole to Coley McCraney. The proceeding was a formality since a jury decided the sentence in April and Alabama law requires a judge abide with the jury's decision in capital cases.

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