A former Memphis police officer will spend nearly four decades in federal prison after admitting to kidnapping and executing a man while on patrol, then conspiring to dump the victim’s body in a river.
Patric J. Ferguson, 34, was sentenced Tuesday to 38 years for a slew of offenses, including civil rights violations, kidnapping, and obstruction of justice related to the 2021 murder of a man identified in court records only as R.H.
According to the Department of Justice, the crime was not a split-second decision but a calculated act of violence committed under the color of law…