‘I rarely see grace in this courtroom but I saw it today’: Judge makes murderer thank his victim’s husband for showing forgiveness during sentencing hearing

A Florida man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murder of an 85-year-old woman during a home invasion robbery in which he posed as a community service officer.

Ronald Dwayne Davis, 55, pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree murder in the January death of 85-year-old Lucy Pat Curl in Orlando, court records say. Circuit Judge Leticia J. Marques sentenced Davis to life in prison.

During the sentencing hearing, the victim’s husband for 64 years, Bill Curl, a longtime pastor at First Baptist Orlando, forgave Davis, according to a courtroom report from local NBC affiliate WESH …

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