Parker Sentenced To Life In Prison
SEATTLE - Robert Parker, spared the death penalty last week, was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Parker was convicted last month of two counts of aggravated murder for the 1995 deaths of Renee Powell, 43, and Barbara Walsh, 53.
Prosecutors suggested during the penalty phase of Parker's trial that the murders were particularly heinous - both victims had been bound, gagged, raped, strangled and stabbed.
But after jurors could not agree unanimously that he should be executed, Judge Sharon Armstrong's only option was to order him to prison for life with no chance of parole.