Three people have been sentenced to life in prison for the murder-for-hire killing of 65-year-old Herman Harris, after prosecutors said a workplace injury and a threatened lawsuit led to a deadly plot involving his former employers.
Rilonda Brooks, her brother David Brooks Jr. and Johnnie Hicks were sentenced by Judge Alvin Batiste in Louisiana's 18th Judicial District Court on 14 September, after an Iberville Parish jury convicted all three at the end of a trial on 14 August.