A Baton Rouge judge minced no words Tuesday as he sent a man convicted of killing a woman on Instagram Live to prison for the rest of his life.
“I’ve seen an awful lot in 35 years. But I have to tell you … you committed one of the most shocking murders that I’ve ever heard of, or had to see on video,” District Judge Carson Marcantel told Earl Lee Johnson Jr.
A jury found Johnson, 39, guilty of first-degree murder Sept. 12 at the end of a five-day trial inside the 19th Judicial District Courthouse. He held Janice David hostage in his car, the beat the 34-year-old Baton Rouge woman with a tire iron, tied her up with jumper cables and tortured her. Johnson recorded portions of himself stabbing the bloodied, beaten and battered woman 42 times and livestreamed it online. He then torched his car with David still inside clinging to the last vestiges of life…