Mississippi man sentenced in deaths of wife and stepdaughter
January 7, 2021 GMT
CANTON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 2018 stabbing deaths of his wife and stepdaughter.
Walter Simpson, 47, was sentenced Tuesday by Madison County Circuit Judge Steve Ratliff. A jury on Oct. 29 convicted Simpson of two counts of murder, one count of arson and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
In addition to life without parole for each of the murder convictions, Simpson was sentenced to 20 years for arson and 10 years for the gun charge, District Attorney Bubba Bramlett said in a news release.