The man who admitted to setting a mobile home on fire in Stockton, California, killing a mother and two of her young sons, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Jose Carmen Cardona pleaded guilty on Monday and was sentenced to life without parole for three counts of premeditated, deliberate and willful first-degree murder, the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office announced. Each life sentence will be served consecutively.
Cardona also received a consecutive life sentence for premeditated, deliberate and willful attempted murder involving the only surviving child. A child abuse count was stayed because it involved the same victim as the attempted murder charge, prosecutors said.
In addition, Cardona was convicted of arson of an inhabited structure with a special circumstance that the arson caused great bodily injury to more than one victim, as well as two counts of vandalism for damage to two residences…