TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man convicted of killing two people, including a pregnant woman, at a Ruskin mobile home in 2018 will spend the rest of his life in prison, a judge decided Monday.
McKinsie Lyons was sentenced to serve five life terms in prison without the possibility of parole.
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This came following debate on whether Lyons should receive the death penalty, and even some of the victims’ family members asking that Lyons be put to death. A jury recommended a life sentence last month, despite prosecutors describing the crime as “shockingly evil.”
Lyons’ trial lasted for a week before he was found guilty on two counts of first-degree murder, one count of killing an unborn child by injury to the mother, armed burglary of a dwelling with possession of a firearm, and robbery…